Raja, let me make a number of essential clarifications: 1. ' Hence , that the 'do'-construction in "Who went to the park?" is not possible or at least less preferable (which of the two is it in your opinion?) in "Who

The for-to-Infinitive Construction "is a construction in which the infinitive is in predicate relation to a noun or a pronoun preceded by the preposition for," L. A. Kaushanskaya (1970:200) In the sentence the for-to-Infinitive Construction can

When we say 'his being' we are using 'his' as a possessive pronoun. This is tantamount to saying Bob's doing... (An apostrophe here indicates possessive). And whenever one uses such a construction, although one should try to

Are you sure they speak standard American or British English? It sounds like it might be from a sort of dialect of English. Where I live nobody puts that pronoun there. The only meaning it might have, to my ear, is a sort of enthusiastic emphasis,

'This is I', though it remains grammatically correct, is seldom said or used. The American Heritage Dictionary says: Personal pronouns after forms of be: 'That must be him on the phone.' 'No, it must be he.' Traditional grammar requires the

What i I am trying to ask is that whether Which which is correct in the first sentence since the noun Weapon weapon is creating ambiguity , or not?? According to most grammarians today, that use of which is correct. I do remember reading

Each of the following sentences may contain an error in grammar, idiom or usage. If there is an error, it will appear in one of the underlined portions. Answers are given at the answer part. First try to answer by yourself, and then check it

Hi Elizabeth Re: 'He asked her to dance'. That was a great reply to something that I too was unsure about. If I understand you correctly, that example is analysed as: 'He - asked - ' i.e. S-V- , where O is an

"If the i.o.u.'s are issued as threated, it would be the first time since 1992 -- when Gov. Pete Wilson paid roughly 100,000 state employees with them -- that the warrants were used to hold over those to whom the state owed money . "

Hello, Specter. In your sentence "Working for him doesn't interest me," "working for him" is the subject and the rest is the predicate. The subject happens to be a gerundive (or gerundial, as some call