"What I believe I can devote myself to to leave an ever memorable trace in the history is through becoming an automobile designer, the only dream of mine. " Wrong. Plain wrong. The sentence was probably written by someone whose native

Common sense should have told you the answer (and a good dictionary): The A lps are a range/train/chain of mountains in Italy. CB

What is the noun in *The alps are a ..of mountains in Italy?*

The double-s is ubiquitous. Most adjectives can be turned into nouns by adding "-ness." bashfulness, consciousness, liveliness, etc. also, authoress, agribusiness, (just for fun) Edit. Hmm, looks like I need to visit the optometrist

This structure (the + singular countable noun) can be used to generalize but is mainly used with animals, plants, things and even certain groups of people. 1. The computer has changed the way we do business. 2. The mountain lion is a

Hello. I happened to fine this website when I searched for information about English grammar. A few minutes ago, I read a sentence, "There's something the matter with this pen." I can't understand how

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

You know, there is a certain entertainment value in reading the word choices of non English speakers, because even if the meaning is clear, sometimes the world choices are something that no native speaker would use. Conclusive is an adjective (I

Only sick can be used attributively, in other words, before a noun: a sick person. In British English, sick is often used to refer to nausea or other rather mild problems with one's health while ill denotes something serious which may require

And, the "is" is needed if the adj. is followed by a noun: He is a nice person ( equivalent to "he very nice" ) also needed when there's no adjective: The Sun is a sphere