By English grammar, Direct questions

Thanks MariusCertain things you taught me are engraved in my memory. You are very good at English grammar.I have two more questions.1) It is correct to say he/she is an asthmatic.2)If a person is suffering from rheumaitsm, is it correct to say he/she is rheumatic? Is...

Clive wrote:The bottom line, of course, is that any of these systems is OK as long as it provides a tool that someone finds useful in learning to speak good English. Would you call this a relative clause? I don't know where the pen is. What would you say it relates to? When I asked this, I...

Clive wrote:Would you call this a relative clause? I don't know where the pen is. What would you say it relates to?Hi CliveI learned my grammatical terminology as a schoolboy and as far as I can remember most of the terms I learned were applicable to all the languages I studied. There were/are...

Clive wrote:I don't see any of these as relative clauses. They are noun clauses. eg noun clause I read what he wrote.eg relative clause I read the letter which he wrote. Here, which he wrote is relative (ie relates to) the noun 'letter'. I don't see any indirect questions, either. Hi...

Hi Paco2004, First of all, I like your new appearance. Does your picture change based on the forthcoming festival:? Being a very basic English learner, I myself ask several silly basic questions in order to understand different rules. I still feel that I have learned just one percent of...

Hi, Latin, No, it is not wrong to say "What is the homework about?" Any time you want to know what the homework is about is the context! I suppose the question that is used more often for this is, "What do you have to do for homework?" In a direct question, subject and verb are inverted, and...