I don't want to be a pain in the neck but I am doing English Grammar II at the teacher training school and we are analyzing sentences. Since I am practising on my own I have come across many doubts. My doubt has to do with the verb

The causative make is a little different. You have to say the following: Subject + make + object + verb He made his employee repair his shoes. have/get doesn't take a direct object. It is intransitive. He had his shoes repaired (by a

Hi Ticce. There are some verbs which are followed with infg forms. __ Some verbs that are followed by -ing can also be followed by infinitive of purpose. One of them is stop. See these ones: I stopped talking . (I ceased to do it.) (I stopped

Take a transitive verb. Make a sentence with it that has a direct object. Mary threw the ball. John is eating the pizza. The committee has written the rules. Those are all active. ________ Now make the corresponding passive sentences. Take the

Hi, I get more money than I give to, or from him. instead of: Say it this way. I get more money from him than I give him to to him . You need to say 'to him' for the same reason that you say 'from him', ie the preposition comes

You have made some very complex sentences, so it is not easy to explain without a lot of detail. Here is my analysis of the grammar in the second sentence. I am not an expert in grammar, so I invite other members of the forum to comment. It

Within 2 minutes of the previous post, I ran into this one: I saw him trying to open the trunk. Answer: trying to open the trunk is a participial phrase modifying the direct object him/to open the trunk is a noun infinitive phrase used as

Here's the sentence: Jack hopes to join the Army next month . Answer: an infinitive phrase used as a direct object. I defined it as: an adverb infinitive phrase used to modify the verb "hope". I see the verb

a large meteor hitting the moon is a noun clause. It's the subject of the sentence. hitting is the "head" of the clause. The hitting is what would cause the melting. The clause itself has a subject (a large meteor), a verb (hitting

Here are some references: http://books.google.com.my/books?hl=en&q=%22I%20opened%20a%20crack%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wp I don't think in the US we'd say "I opened a crack" in this context. This was quite an