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. Mostly: ▸ noun : a journey or passage ( "They are on the way" ) ▸ noun : a course of conduct ( "We went our separate ways" ) ▸ noun : any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another ( "He said he was looking for the...

Hi! I've got some doubts in this poem I'm trying to analyze. The grey sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i' the...

Hi, it seems strange to me. The opposite would be a noun, and diametrically is an adverb, and they can go together. After looking up "diametrically" in my dictionary, I think you can only use that expression if you use "opposite" as an adjective. What X expresses is...

of ... is a preposition and is generally placed before a noun eg. she is part OF a group. ( a group. the noun preceded by it's preposition) could ... is an adverb which describes the verb eg. she COULD be part OF the group ... (COULD describes the verb TO BE) It follows from the above that...

Oops! I oversimplified. My remarks pertained to the use of next and the next when referring to time . Trains are different! Both of your examples require the next (train) . train is a countable, singular, concrete noun, so it has to have a determiner. This takes precedence over any other...

There is no consensus on how to handle numerals. They are like determiners and like nouns. Some grammarians just use "numeral" as another part of speech, like "noun" or "verb". I offer this analysis, but there are surely others. fifty is a noun acting as a...

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You are right, Forbes, we have had this discussion before! Maybe we can introduce some new angles to it. I repeat that I have never said English is easier than other languages. I have said that its grammar and syntax are easy. "What have you locked the book I was being read to out of up...

Hello Kooyeen, First,thank you very much for your answer . In the meantime I've got the answer on part 1 of my post .It is a question of a preposition at the end of a question.I understand that if ,for example, I ask : Where are you going to? - "where" is a pronoun since it can be replaced...

"The Change of the Characteristics in the passage from The Hours " The passage from the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham is intriguing. The passage illustrates the difference between the character's characteristics in different time settings: past and present. This difference is...