1. i am as strong as him ( change into comparative) 2. india is larger than any other democracy in the world ( change into positve) 3. no other metal is useful as iron ( change into superlative ) 4. she is known to me ( change into active ) 5. it

I don't even know the "traditional" term for the structure we're discussing here (with making ... ) except that it involves a present participle. CJ: In the "classical" grammar I learned soon after the emergence of

Huevos, So am I correct to assume that your classification of “exhausted” is adjectival in nature? Perhaps, this is the difference between how you and I see it. For pure fact finding interest, I have done some more investigative research: Bear in

Hi, Can you help me please ? Which one is correct? And why? -- Where is my wallet? Where is the police station? OR Where my wallet is? Where the police station is? English grammar requires the inversion shown in #1 and #2. However, note that you

The reporting clause becomes a kind of preface, commenting on the other clause, which contains the main message. (Quoted from the introduction of Collins COBUILD English Grammar ) How would you pronounce the word 'commenting' here? Would

For example, although it is true to say that the noun group is the structure we choose for the things we want to talk about , it is not the only one. Sometimes we want to talk about an event or an idea that is not easy to express in a noun

CB, you said "Participles are very often used to replace all manner of subordinate clauses. " < This is also very often said in many Taiwanese/ Chinese/Japanese English Grammar Books> Can you rewrite the origianl sentence "He

Others may disagree, but I definitely go with 'means', making it sound good, at least. Hi Philip No one with a basic knowledge of English grammar will disagree. The antecedent is the entire main clause. CB

Hello Anonymous, In your sentences there is no adjective phrases.A phrase is a name used in the english grammar to label a group of words which acts as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence,which means that you need at least two words to label

In that respect, I would like to know when and how the auxiliary "do" appeared in English. What kind of people introduced it into the English language? I would like to know who decided about the value of tenses of the Past. They do not