By Direct questions, Noun phrases

Not here. No. when to clauses are indirect questions, hence, they function as noun phrases:I didn't know when to change trains.Be sure to tell him when to change trains.They don't function as adverbs:*You have to walk when to change trains.*Be sure to read the posted signs when to...

Neither of these is a well-formed, complete sentence. ________ The first (when going to a party) means it becomes dangerous to go to a party, it's time to think seriously about the situation. ________ The second (when to go to a party) means the time at which you go to a party. It's a...

FYI Indian English, the largest second language variety of English, is undergoing a process of structural nativization that leads to the variety developing a semi-autonomous norm-developing potential....

Hello guys I'm a non-native anonymous poster. But I'd like to throw my two cents. Children begin to learn the norm before their linguistic skills are far enough developed to understand a verbal description of what they are learning. This kind of learning has sometimes been called 'imitation',...

Becomes: It would cost some amount to buy a lot of new clothes. Direct question form: How much would it cost to buy a lot of new clothes? Indirect question (noun phrase) form: how much it would cost to buy a lot of new clothes. He worried about this: how much it would cost to buy a lot of...

Excellent, excellent observation! Good analyses. 1) It would do no harm to use "they" to refer to "clothes". 2) It seems more idiomatic to me to use "preposed it" to refer to an infinitive phrase. 3) It is easy to see that I have already created three sentences in this posting with this...