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I just did a little search on the net and found out that people really don t use those kinds of expressions So it must be that as you all say collective nouns are not good in the structures I wanted to use I thought they were possible that s why I asked Oddly enough I often use those structures...

The Antonym of Sin In order to arrive at a suitable antonym for the word sin one must understand the word as it is correctly used in the English language This explanation will address the meaning of sin and its antonym in an attempt to assist in gaining a more thorough understanding As a verb sin...

Inchoateknowledge wrote This is the watch as I lost this sentence is false No it is dialect In some dialects as that as THAT used to introduce a noun clause and now dialect except in certain negative expressions with know say or see that have wide usage in informal speech lt he said as he would...

Anonymous wrote Do you figure out how the should be used there It should not be because it is a collective noun Are you saying we have to take the phrase as it is without asking why the is there because it s an idiomatic expression Paco Hello HiroI am sorry but I have to say I might be wrong...

Hello MrP History of English Gerunds quoted from OED The most notable development of the verbal nouns in form of ing is its use as a gerund i e a substantive with certain verbal functions particularly those of being qualified by an adverb instead of an adjective and of governing an object like a...