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Re: Grammar point, please help clarify this

Raen — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:51:31 GMT

Thanks Anonymous for your detailed explanation.

So would you say this particular grammar point is widely accepted by native-speakers and/or linguistic community? DailyGrammar online is the source, I'd like to know if the teaching of this website is recognized as the authouraty of English grammar. I have come across other points that made me cringe as they were so foreign to what I was taught in my own country (then again, I'm a foreigner to English speakers, so who am I to say.)

By the way, I double-checked the grammar of my subject title. Could you be kind enough to tell me how it was wrong?

Thanks

Raen

Re: submit or submits?

Cool Breeze — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:07:06 GMT

dave_amateur

in your example, I demand that he show his passport.
should i use show or shows when both deem fit to be correct? so if i use either of it, i am correct?

and with reference from your example, would it be correct to use submits in my example too?

there are so many rules and different practices in english that are driving me nuts...

Don't worry! English drives everybody nuts! And there are very few rules in English, by the way. That's why English grammar is so easy. What makes it interesting is that there is no absolute authority who judges what is wrong and what is right. Opinions differ. People are more or less unanimous about certain things and are guaranteed to disagree on some other things.

I have already said what I think about my example. I'm sure some other members on this forum think differently about it. The subjunctive sounds better to my ear in both my and your sentence.

in, on, and at

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:18:51 GMT

Hi everyone,

Can anyone tell me how to use the following IN, ON, AT words?

For example:

1) I want to buy an English grammar book on Amazon website.
2) I want to buy an English grammar book in Amazon website.
3) I want to buy an English grammar book at Amazon website.

In my opinion, above three sentences do have same means.
Thank you very much in advance

Grammar point, please help clarify this

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:17:42 GMT

Hi, I need help with this grammar point.

I was preparing myself for an English Grammar test, the material I'm studying to prepare for the test says that there are 7 words, namely 3 articles (a, an, the) and 4 possessive pronouns (my, our, your, their), are always "adjectives". What?! Could someone be kind enough to explain the logic or reason for that? I just simply can't wrap my head around that concept. Thanks.

Raen

Re: I got some questions about english grammar again.

Mister Micawber — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:45:42 GMT

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I have been waiting for Socola to come online for 5 hours already and I am still waiting.

I have been waiting for Socola to come online for 5 hours already and she is finally online now.

I have been waiting for Socola to come online for 6 hours already and I am still waiting.

Besides, I want to know is there any differences between these sentences -- No difference in meaning or intent:
1. I have given the cake to Sam already.
2. I gave the cake to Sam already.

I got some questions about english grammar again.

loveCZ — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:42:14 GMT

Please judge the sentences below :

[Waited Socola to come online for 5 hours but she is still offline now] should i say :
I have been waiting for Socola to come online for 5 hours already and now I am still waiting.

[Waited Socola to come online for 5 hours and finally she onlines] should i say:
I had been waiting for Socola to come online for 5 hours already and she finally onlines now.

[Waited Socola to come online for almost 6 hours but she is still offline now]should i say :
I will have been waiting for Socola to online for 6 hours already and now I am still waiting.

Besides, I want to know is there any differences between these sentences :
1. I have given the cake to Sam already.
2. I gave the cake to Sam already.

Please reply me as soon as possible, thank you very much

CAN'T STAND + INFINITIVE vs CAN'T STAND +GERUND

Tuongvan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:56:31 GMT

Hi teachers,

My English Grammar written by Raymond Murphy says after CAN'T STAND we must use a gerund, not an infinitive, but in Longman English dictionary,It gives an example with CAN'T STAND + INFINITIVE:
Quote :

can't stand

spoken used to say that you do not like someone or something at all, or that you think that something is extremely unpleasant [= can't bear]:

I can't stand bad manners.

I know he can't stand the sight of me.

can't stand (somebody/something) doing something

Lily can't stand working in an office.

I can't stand people smoking around me when I'm eating.

can't stand to do something

She can't stand to hear them arguing.

Unquote

I'm very confused about this.So could you possibly clarify it for me?

Thank you in advance

Re: party like it's 999

Grammar Geek — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:40:35 GMT

Hi Aedilis, and welcome to the English Forums.

Yes, of course you can posts questions like that, or any other that relate to English grammar, vocaulary, or comprehension!

Many people predicted terrible things or the end of the world when the year 2000 was just ahead. The idea about partying like it's 1999 (Nineteen ninenty-nine) is that you don't have a care in the world, because it may all be over the next day. Have a good time now; the future is uncertain.

Was the context for this quote something set in the Middle Ages? If so, it was a joke, referencing this attitude of 1999 (and a song by the same title.)

Re: cancer, heart disease - are they countable ?

Seraphin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:18:37 GMT

Guess I am surrounded by doctors with poor knowledge of English grammar ?

They say it all the times that "you have A cancer in your prostate" or "you have A cancer in your stomach", although they also sayÂ

"it's cancer" to their patients. :)

Re: gerund or verbal noun with an article?

Crokey — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:44:28 GMT

Hi CB,
thanks so much for your reply(i was the one who asked about the differences between verbal nouns and gerunds). i agree that there seems to be discrepancies between one grammarians usage and another's. I certainly like your definition of gerunds, in so far as they are unable to take the definite article, however: "the gerund expresses action [and] it is often preceded by the definite article" e.g.(given) "Our culture therefore must not omit the arming of the man." from An English Grammar by W. M. Baskervill & J. W. Sewell.
Perhaps your example might be used to illustrate the conundrum further: "The speech of the english language is beautiful". speech is surely a verbal noun, derived from the verb speak but there is no action being performed, i am merely naming an action. When i say "The speaking of the english language is easy", am I naming an action or am I implying that an action may be performed that is difficult. If I had never read the section in An English Grammar(reproduced in a variety of other articles i have ventured across during this travail) and a spectacular panoply of inconcise readings of the matter, then i would be quiet content to adopt your comfortable definition.
thanks again cb for taking the time to look at this and all the other posts...especially the ones that are pure academic tomfoolery!