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Something to chew on: THE NOTION OF STANDARD SPOKEN GRAMMAR The term ‘standard grammar’ is most typically associated with written language, and is usually considered to be characteristic of the recurrent usage of adult, educated native speakers of a language. Standard grammar ideally reveals no...

You've run into a common English grammar argument here. In the expression California vegetables , the word California (though usually a noun) has effectively become an adjective modifying vegetables . Your grammar book is confusing you needlessly here; it has nothing to do with proper...

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...

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 ...

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...

Forbes wrote: I think you misunderstand what I am trying to get at it. If you are teaching someone Thai and you say "Thai nouns have no plural" you may give the impression that Thai has no means of expressing number, which is not the case. I agree that many...

Hello Roro I’m now in my office and so I can't log in by my own ID Why am I frustrated? I feel the use of bare NPs as temporal adverbials is a linguistic phenomenon common to many languages. But no English grammar book gives us this sort of information in a detail enough to make us...

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...

Hello People One of my English grammar books (written in Japanese) says about "as"-including concessive adverbial clauses as follows; Construction: To Komountain Koyama is so common a surname in Japan. It is "small mountain" but has not any negative sense. paco