By English grammar, Clauses

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 you put the stress on the first syllable,...

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 group. Instead we can use a clause as the subject of...

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 has the gall of a shoplifter returning an item for a...

Hi PhilipNo 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 some part of the sentence a phrase. Words,phrases...

Do existed in Old English more than a thousand years ago as a regular verb and meant to cause. It is impossible to say who introduced it to English. It's use as an auxiliary in questions and negations was established in Shakespeare's day when it was correct to say bothI know not himandI...

Dear Sir:Thank you for your feedback on my questions.However, I am not sure of your latter explanation. The question: " Which is the most useful thing to own: a computer or a car?", according to you, is incorrect. But the second one, " Which is more useful thing to own: a computer or a car?" is...

I doubt that it is more nearly acceptable that we reproduce the exact same thread with a new date on it. The word that I mispelled was "clause." If you reread the post, I misspelled several words. I was copying from the Gregg reference manual (an English grammar / usage reference manual) as...

Hi, Is this sentence grammatically correct? She wrote twenty novels (of which two were apparently unpublished), three poems and a play. (I have doubts about the relative clause between brackets. It's not good for your English grammar to get into the habit of using brackets. Why not say it this...

<< What I understood is that 'As much' is used as an adverbial to comapre the degree of the noun 'duty'. to compare the degree of being a duty, yes. There is no "degree of the noun duty". Do we need to use singlar noun to denote the comparison of degree? No. These are as much duties...