What you call your "attempt" is almost perfect, Eddie. You're good at grammar! One minor correction I'd made would be the category acting as subject: it is a clause, not a phrase. It has a verb (even if not a finite form) and it

Recall that * means ungrammatical. _____ one is always countable. *coarse sand and fine one; *white sugar and brown one; *fresh milk and spoiled one; *British English and American one; *good knowledge and bad one But (countable):

What is the word sucks in " Homework sucks " ? Is it a verb or an adjective? If it is a verb, what does homework suck? This brings up an excellent point, and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English

And hello yet again, Hela! In the sentences in your first post there is only one adjective phrase: "very little", in sentence # 3. An adjective phrase is a construction that has an adjective as its "head" (the most important word. In "very

Which one is correct? This book belongs to his brother. This book belongs to his brother's. The first is correct; the second is incorrect. Can you explain what rule applies to it, please? The verb 'belong' takes the preposition

I need to hand in this exercise but I'm not sure about the analysis nor the grammar. If you could have a look at eat I would be really grateful! thank you all! Explain the use of Generic Noun Phrases (or Noun Groups) in English by analyzing the

Dave, First of all, and even when everyone is surely aware of this, I must insist that even when I believe my knowledge of the English grammar is good, I'm not a grammarian or a linguist. It would be completely absurd for me to try and analyse a

Here's an example in which both are correct: I can't stand you being here. I can't stand your being here. The second sentence is more formal than the first. Traditionally, "being" would be analyzed as a verb in and a gerund in . But

From an article by Dominick Dunne in the current Vanity ... or correct or what-have-you, or is Dunne in the clear? A case of that well-known English phenomenon where perfectly ordinary expressions start looking weird if you stare at them: Dunne