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Hi, everyone! Happy New Year! But I'm trying to be happy. I'm pulled into a debate over "the very English standard" in a Chinese translation forum. A "sensible" lad who crammed in China's New Oriental Language School asserts that many usages, including those in nytimes.com, economist.com,...

This is a common structure. Grammarians use different terms to describe what and what follows it in the sentence. To my mind, a comma would make the sentence more comprehensible: What you think boring, your friends may find exciting. We could change the order of the clauses and get: Your...

This gives me strength to face the busy day lies ahead. This is not correct. The relative pronoun that (or which ) cannot be omitted when it is the subject of its clause. It has to be "busy day that lies ahead". However, if the relative pronoun subject is followed by a form of the...

How to reduce Noun Clauses: 1. Noun Clauses to Gerund Phrases: When you change noun clauses to gerund phrase, you must first change the verb in the noun clause to its- ing form ; as show in the following . Examples: 1.Full: They admit that they have problems at school....

Hello Latin In most cases 'that' works as a conjunctive or as a relative pronoun . But 'that' can work as a relative adverb in the case it follows 'time' or similar words. When you use 'time that ..' with in/on/at in the that clause, you can take the 'that' as a relative pronoun, and when you...

Simon, The first one is a better expression. It'd be easier to understand when it is rephrased as follows. What is important is patience. = The thing which is important is patience. The meaning is almost exactly the same. The only difference between the two is the respective terms used...