By English grammar, Determiners

There are two catagories of English grammar books avaliable in the market. 1) Prescriptive : This kind of books teach how to correctly use various english words, how to use various forms of Tense/Determiners/Prepositions etc.. I belive Muphy's books belong to this catagory. You may also want...

Clive wrote:in the following sentence "This man is very old" is "This" a demonstrative pronoun, an adjective and a determiner??? It's a demonstrative adjective, which means it is a determiner. It's not a pronoun, because it does not represent a noun, it cannot be replaced by a noun.Hi...

The following is from Mary Ansell's English Grammar: Explanations and Exercises. In your sentences, the numbers should precede the superlatives. Otherwise, one might get the feeling that there are several groups of 50 people each and you are selecting the most beautiful group. Usual Order...

Hello EladioAs you know well, "junior" and "senior" come from the comparatives of Latin adjectives for young ("juvenis") and old ("senem"). So they have comparative sense per se, though in the frame of English grammar, they are not classed as comparatives of adjectives. OED says "senior" can be...

Hello People One of my English grammar books (written in Japanese) says about "as"-including concessive adverbial clauses as follows; Construction: To Komountain Koyama is so common a surname in Japan. It is "small mountain" but has not any negative sense. paco

Dave, First of all, and even when everyone is surely aware of this, I must insist that even when I believe my knowledge of the English grammar is good, I'm not a grammarian or a linguist. It would be completely absurd for me to try and analyse a language that is not even my own in depth when I...

Hi, Bews’, James’ Smiths’… The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar possessive (n. & adj.) (A word or case) indicating possession or ownership. The possessive case of nouns is also called the GENITIVE case, e.g. boy's, boys', Mary's, the Smiths'. Pronouns in the possessive case are the series...