By Constructions, Prepositions

My take:The match was cancelled due to / owing to / because of / on account of rain. All correct, no difference in meaning. This is what Random House Webster's says about due to:—Usage.7. DUE TO as a prepositional phrase meaning “because of, owing to” has been in use since the 14th century:...

1. He'd only left her a note on the bedside table of which she had not understood the content.2. The car in the driveway which has a convertible roof is my new Ferrari. Both sentences share a similar construction where 'which describes the noun before the immediate noun but the first...

.Your examples are of participial construction and rightly bear the same subject as the main clause. However, participial constructions also exist outside that relationship.With the wind blowing abeam, we quickly tacked to the inlet.-- Here, the participal clause is the object of a preposition.

Hi Anc - I wasn't suggesting you use does instead of do in your "third type of construction." I thought if I understood why you wanted to use "do" it might give me a clue as to what you have in mind. If you could only give us an example using "do" which...

1 — not redundant for sure. "Dispose of" is like "get rid of", while "dispose" implies a kind of destruction. 2 — although "why" is considered undesired in constructions like "the reason why I love you", in your example "why" sounds...

The list isn't meant to be exhaustive or carefully arranged. Any additions, corrections or further examples would be welcomed. 1 main verbs; lexical verbs (all verbs which are not auxiliaries or modals) 2 action verbs; event verbs; dynamic verbs (a verb which can be used in...

As a native English speaker (well perhaps not entirely native, I was born in Russia and immigrated to the U.S. at the tender age of 7) I would have to say that apart from the obviously difficult aspects of the English language such as tenses, an unorthodox phonetic system employed in the language...

Hi, It might take long to ask this question but I will try to shorten it. You have the conjunction 'when' and when you use it as a subordinate clause, I think you can use it elliptically like this: He should not grunt when playing tennis Here, I think a full, expanded version of ...

Hi Peaceblinkfriend,I can see your interpretation that the 'sound architecture / construction' of the opera house is excellent.However, I beg to differ. The reason is simple to me.; here are the three clues:1. the use of the preposition 'in'.2. the plural verb 'are'.3....

1. You need the past participle in these sentence opening constructions with by. Driven by anger, Disappointed by the results, Frightened by a gunshot, ...2. The syntax you're looking for is not Verb + Prep + Possessive + Body Part.You want Verb + Person + Prep + the + Body Partslapped...