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Hi J. Baker, It's sometimes said that 'bad English' is the most widely spoken language in the world. That is to say, most speakers of English have a relatively bad knowledge of English grammar, vocabulary, and idioms. This is because most speakers of English have learnt English as a Second...

Many English nouns and noun phrases can be used as adverbs. They are called "adverbial objectives". From the standpoint of word order, an adverbial objective is put as if it were an objective of a verb, but actually it works as an adverbial modifier of the verb. This sort of constructs comes from...