By Dates, Predicates

I'm taking a correspondence course. These are some of the exercises that I need to submit. So please I need help from grammar exerperts thnaks. Exercise 1: Identify each of the “ __ ” words in the sentences as one of the following parts of the sentence: 1.Direct object 2.Indirect...

Hi O, I'd vote for adverbial. For one thing, the phrase does not equal Nora, which condition I believe is necessary for an appositive. If you rearrange the sentence (if this is allowed) you have, Nora is the best of all the candidates who are running, and (I think) the phrase may be said to...

The uses of be are numerous, Sunilghai:–verb (used without object) 1.to exist or live: Shakespeare's “To be or not to be” is the ultimate question. 2.to take place; happen; occur: The wedding was last week. 3.to occupy a place or position: The book is on the table. 4.to continue...

Actually, I think I have already said what I had to say in my response to your post about the cats and alligators. But I'll go over some of your concerns:I think I saw from a post here that kind of said that many times, having "descriptive adjectives" in front of UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS trigger the...

As we know that linking verbs never express an action instead provide additional information about the subject. So by the virtue of this definition, the following example is good;1. As he became old, he grew slow at remembering dates.Here "grew" is the linking verb and "slow" is the predicate...

Recently, I picked up a few English grammar books in a bookstore with the intention of improving my grammar. However, I found that those books were the usual boring way of learning a language. They started with nouns, describing what a noun is and the various form of nouns and e.t.c. I personally...

Nona, please excuse my butting in... "On" is a preposition. Whenever you state a date, you need that preposition before the date, "on 9th November". You can of course say "the due date for the payment was 9th November", "9th November" is a predicate, so you don't need the "on"

I'm not sure whether ALL possible participles could function as adjectives; some I suppose are highly unlikely candidates. Could you list them, and we'll check? I presume that you mean 'as a part of a verb phrase or as a predicate adjective'. The first thing I check (after the meaning, which...

I got to thinking I could answer my own questions by browsing the Internet. With the help of Google, I concluded that there really isn't an answer that everyone agrees on when it comes to this construction. From: http://www.yaelf.com/aueFAQ/mifitsmevsiti.shtml The final factor is the...