By Constructions, Abstract nouns

All of your examples are gerunds if we stick to modern terminology. Forget about the terminology verbal noun. It's total garbage! It has many different definitions, depending on the author and when the grammar book was written. _____________ The modern definition is given at...

I have 2 questions. I'd be happy if someone answer them. (1) Omitting "the" from "the Abstract Noun" can be seen especially in phrases that have inside them the Verb-Object structure, as in "protection of nature", "lack of food" and "construction of a building". Can we always omit "the" from...

Anonymous wrote: wussup everybody... i've got a Grammar exam at 14.00.. I really have no clue.. In Adverbial Clauses, we have a part called alternate structure, it's kinda changin' the subordinate clause into a new structure. This new structure is either : coordinate clause, prepositional...

Hello everybody. In Grammar, adverbial clauses have alternate structures, this means changing the structure of the clause into a new one, it can be either: coordinate clause, prepositional phrase with gerund or with abstract noun, participal phrase or an absolute constraction. We have the...

wussup everybody... i've got a Grammar exam at 14.00.. I really have no clue.. In Adverbial Clauses, we have a part called alternate structure, it's kinda changin' the subordinate clause into a new structure. This new structure is either : coordinate clause, prepositional phrase, participal...

I sent this a a message to Grammar Geek: Thanks, but....I understand there is a "primary way"...Perhaps I'm not being clear. I'm not asking how this is most often said etc. etc...my interest is academic, viz., is it somehow acceptable to say this the other way: "There are sadness and..." Yes,...

Hi, "Because of a confusion with that type of sentence, it is a curiously common error to put a comma in the absolute construction"Should not we use "beacause of confusion..."? Confusion is an abstract noun and can't take 'a' before it.Yes, 'a confusion' is wrong. Your following examples, with...

Hi, I was reading some resource of grammar on internet and came across this sentence."Because of a confusion with that type of sentence, it is a curiously common error to put a comma in the absolute construction"Should not we use "beacause of confusion..."? Confusion is an abstract noun and...

"do not have any ..." (or "don't have any ...") has the same meaning as "have no ...". There is, however, a tendency to use the "have no ..." constructions when an abstract noun follows. I have no . This is not a rule. Both constructions can be used with both abstract and concrete...

Nona The Brit wrote:Did you have to do everything in the order given or just through the poem? IT would be easier if not in order. Anyway, working through the requirements you seem to have met them (in my humble opinion that is) apart from the comments below. This was a difficult assignment...