Hi Avangi I know I should not have butted in but it's too late to regret it now! Unlike Jim, I'm not at all familiar with transformational grammar even though I do remember reading an introduction to it in the 1960s. Besides, grammatical

Hello, this is my first post here but I've been visiting the site for at least several months since I have found some very interesting discussions here. My question is going to be really complicated and it will take you some time to read

Hi, “ After my foot fully recovered , i'll be able to backpack South America.” I thought this was a clause that with recovered being a past participle ,changed into and adverbial phrase. The part in bold doesn't seem at all

Hi, The clause that starts with 'after'. The main clause is I'll be able to backpack South America. Clive

Hi, After my foot fully recover s / recovered , I 'll be able to backpack South America. After my foot is fully recover /recovered , I 'll be able to backpack South America. The subordinate clause requires a correctly

I forgot to tell they can also begin with (who,whom,which,when,where,how,how many,how much. But you should use normal word order ,not question word order. Do you know how far it is to Hawaii?

1-- when = at the time or in the event that: 'when we were young'; 'when the noise stops'. 2-- when = In informal style when is often used after forms of be in definitions: A dilemma is when you don't know which way to turn. Although useful,

Why is it correct to use a comma after the word "Pentecost"? As we have seen, the feasts of the spring months, Passover and Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, and Pentecost, were historically fulfilled ... Because the three capitalized

Hi. Could you please answer some questions on comma use? Sorry for not providing a full sentence for for no. 1. (I feel the part of the sentence that is given is long enough to answer my question.) 1. Why is it correct to use a comma after

From a usage note in the American Heritage Dictionary: "since is often a weak form of because , but its connotation of time implies that what it introduces makes the preceding matter follow by logical sequence or inference: He stayed behind