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Rith wrote: Some English grammar books say that you can use ＜ during which ＞ instead of ＜ when ＞ in a relative adverb clause. Is it always true? Well, I'm not sure. Certainly, ＜ during which ＞ and ＜ when ＞ are both time-related expressions. However, while ＜ when ＞ in a...

Some English grammar books say that you can use ＜ during which ＞ instead of ＜ when ＞ in a relative adverb clause. Is it always true? Well, I'm not sure. Certainly, ＜ during which ＞ and ＜ when ＞ are both time-related expressions. However, while ＜ when ＞ in a relative adverb...

Forbes wrote: Cool Breeze, your English is faultless! I think that Mr P has hit the nail on the head. In English the complexity resides in the syntax. Many say that English has no "grammar" because you do not need to grapple with conjugations and declensions, but of course if it had no...

Alienvoord, I appreciate you're constructive criticism. Allow me to rebute: 1) Comprehensible, yes. But many expressions are comprehensible even without being gramatically sound. The nuances I try to reveal in this post are to help you write better gramatically, not to sound or to write...

Rho, Ok, this is obvious you are not being honest and sincere. You are intentionally playing dumb. You seem to be convinced that I have some "source" which I am not divulging. I have presented examples and given various explanations. If you still want to antagonize someone, email...

Many English nouns and noun phrases can be used as adverbs. They are called "adverbial objectives". From the standpoint of word order, an adverbial objective is put as if it were an objective of a verb, but actually it works as an adverbial modifier of the verb. This sort of constructs comes from...