By Direct objects, Present perfect

Hi, Mary - subject has always - adverbial lived in - verb phrase Montreal - direct object He - subject will explain verb phrase the problem direct object to the students indirect object. A tiger - subject is - verb phrase I'd just call it a verb a type of - subject complement if 'cat;' is...

A. In many cases "stay away" and "keep away" could be interchangeable, but not in the two examples you give. 1. "Keep away" here would suggest that there was something dangerous about the school itself, rather than just a difficulty in getting to the school. "Everyone has to stay away/keep...

CalifJim wrote:There is no such thing as a transitive sentence.Verbs are transitive or intransitive, not sentences."to train" is a transitive verb. As such, it can be used both in active and in passive sentences.The sample sentence illustrates a transitive verb used in a passive sentence (i.e.,...

Hello Sextus Here you go: 1) “The past few years have witnessed the publication of a considerable number of books and papers on the influence that ancient scepticism (broadly defined) . I don’t understand whether by adding “an” before “assimilation”, the sentence is correct, or whether I...

Yes, without the contraction it would be "You have got questions. We have got answers." Have is used to form the present perfect indicative forms of verbs. That is, to pair the past participle of the verb with either have or has. Got is the past indicative form of the verb get and, therefore,...