Greetings, Tina, Mister Micawber's answers are completely relevant, but let me make some additional remarks: 1. A time of prosperity and peace - is a noun phrase you analysed absolutely correctly. In general, noun phrases may have the

I think the original post was referring to possessives in general, not just 'him'. Trad grams called my, your, his/her/its, our, your, their possessive adjectives . However, in many modern grammars they came to be called

much absolutely cannot be used there. loud and great are not really idiomatic there, though with the addition of of , the use of loud is slightly less objectionable. The positioning of adjectives in front of gerund clauses is not often successful

Hi. Is it correct to put adjectives like "loud" or "great" or what looks to be a determiner (not sure, though) like "much" in front of a gerund clause? eg, His much/loud/great playing the violin in the early

The A level Language textbook we use categorises 'my' 'your' 'his' 'her' 'our' and 'their' as possessive pronouns. I think they cannot be pronouns since they do not replace nouns. I have seen them

May I try? (l) a siimple sentence. (2) it has a compound predicate. (3) the two predicates are connected by the coordinating conjunction "and"(4) predicate No. 1 = bought a box of colors. "box" is modified by "a" (an

"We lost almost anything" doesn't make sense, so let's change it to "We lost almost everything". Here, "almost" is listed as an adjective: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/almost

Either is acceptable. Each and every have similar but not always identical meanings. Each = every one separately Every = each, all Sometimes, each and every have the same meaning: Prices go up each year. Prices go up

except add, ebb, inn These are one-syllable content words that begin with a vowel. I think that, psychologically perhaps, we like content words (nouns, verbs, etc., rather than determiners, prepositions, and conjunctions) to have at least three

. 'The' is a determiner, which is a sort of adjective. It indicates that specific objects are spoken of, perhaps one that were mentioned earlier. .