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Re: tense agreement in adverbial clauses

tense agreement is highly important subject in adverbial clauses. when ı was a student at high school, we could make a comprehensive research on the mammals. that clause is correct. but in time clauses, reason-effect clauses and contrast clauses don't need tense agreement every...

Re: whats a complete predicate??

.A complete predicate is all of the sentence except for the subject.An appositive is 'an expression that has 'the same function and the same relation to other elements in the sentence , the second expression identifying or supplementing the first. In Washington, our first president, the...

Re: conjunctive adverb

Hi, Hi again, Thank you again, Clive. My thanks also go to GG. You said this: Or perhaps you could use such a word/phrase to start an independent sentence, and see if it sounds OK. What I am troubled by is the use of word 'independent'. I feel if left alone 'I flunked the test...

Re: conjunctive adverb

Thank you again, Clive. My thanks also go to GG. You said this: Or perhaps you could use such a word/phrase to start an independent sentence, and see if it sounds OK. What I am troubled by is the use of word 'independent'. I feel if left alone 'I flunked the test before' would...

Re: tenses

Hi, I would like to hear what badegine would say. I think your sentence is good and conveys the sense of your troubling days over the design of the control system is OVER. Your sentence: 'I'm so glad! What a relief. The design of the control system had been troubling me, and sometimes...

Analyzing WH-questions the H&P CGEL way

Hi!I am reading Huddleston & Pullum's CGEL, and I've run into a problem. I don't understand how to analyze WH-questions with both subject-auxiliary inversion and . Couldn't somebody help me out?Let us take the sentence What did the Captain say? as an example. Here the Captain...

Re: "Three nuclei with one proton are known ?that? contain 0,1 and 2 neutrons, respectively."

to is an interesting suggestion, and that works.The original, with that, is a case of a 'heavy' relative clause 'floating' to the right. The underlying form isThree nuclei .The author got himself into a grammatical corner and chose this last version as the least...

Re: I thought a spider is/was an insect

My apologies for introducing a joke! The "universal falsehood" reference is a complete joke! It doesn't matter whether what is reported is universally true or unversally false. What's important is that in the speaker's mind it is universally (or eternally, if you wish)...

Re: I thought a spider is/was an insect

Should I use "is" or "was"?I thought a spider is/was an insect, but it is in fact an arachnid. Use "was". This is not reported speech! (And the first part is not a universal truth anyway; it's a universal falsehood!) This is one of the most typical patterns...

Re: conjunctive adverb

There are the ones you're looking for: and, but, or, yet, for, nor, so All of these create a subordinate clause, and using a semi-colon or a period before them would be incorrect:after, before, when, while, since, until, though (although, even though), whereas, while.