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Dear Goodman, When I wrote "you could be right though!" I meant about the removing of the 'but' in "The store does not sell books as such, but it sells magazines ..." As I said in my first post, I don't use as such at all. The reason is its repetitive nature hiding behind as such . If I have to...

All of your examples are gerunds if we stick to modern terminology. Forget about the terminology verbal noun . It's total garbage! It has many different definitions, depending on the author and when the grammar book was written. __ The modern definition is given at ...

would you say "John calling" is a noun phrase almost identical to "his calling" where "calling" is a genitive functioning as a noun? No. There is nothing genitive going on here. It's (among other things) a Whiz-Deletion. That will be John who is calling. So calling is part of the verb...

Both are fine. Here is what the American Heritage Dictionary has to say: USAGE NOTE: Every is representative of a large class of English words and expressions that are singular in form but felt to be plural in sense. The class includes, for example, noun phrases introduced by every, any,...

It seems to me that the ellipsis in these constructions is no worse than that in other "acceptable" constructions. Webster's Dictionary of English Usage likewise seems to find no good reason for its censure. And why do they perhaps partly because of novelty; but both he and others have...

Hello Roro Excellent writing! I believe you are an advanced English learner, at least a learner much more advanced than me. Anyway, what I feel about the problem you have now is that it rather come from your misunderstanding the tense relation in a sentence using the time connective word ....

Hello. The sentences listed were composed by me except for the first one, so these might have incorrect expressions.. I just forcus on 'such as' and conjugate the verbs. 1.My mom is always asking me to do lots of jobs around the house, such as (mow) the lawn and (wash) the dishes after...

Hi Camilus, You've given me a lot of homework. it weighs on my back, but it never is the last straw. Fortunately, my back is strong enough. I Appositives vs. Parenthetical Element a) Neil Armstrong, the first man who walked on the moon, is a native of Ohio. Here, “the first man who...