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Huevos, So am I correct to assume that your classification of “exhausted” is adjectival in nature? Perhaps, this is the difference between how you and I see it. For pure fact finding interest, I have done some more investigative research: Bear in mind, my sentence was “I am completely exhausted...

This is an example of a grammar issue that is made difficult because frequent usage of the "a lot" construction in informal conversation makes it tricky to say what is correct based on how it "sounds." Whether the nouns are countable/uncountable or singular/plural is beside...

Hi, ... and somebody says it's subjunctive. See also: http://www.englishforums.com/English/ChangingTenses/dqcdx/post.htm http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhichSentencesAreCorrect/zjbhp/post.htm

I agree with you wholly, Yankee. Simply I wanted to explain the difference between such construction. Thanks for attention.

Clive wrote: Hi, Very generally speaking, the expression 'How about these?' in writing often seems infelicitous and imprecise. Clive Hello Clive, Thank to you, I've just learned a new word, infelicitous! If you don't mind, may I pose a few more questions to you? Question #1: The phrase...

Hi, He sat all day glued to the TV. We spent the entire morning tied up in meetings. What is the correct term for the underlined constructions? I think you may be thinking of 'figurative expressions'. Clive

Mister Micawber wrote: Here where I live, we deal with those kind s of incidents almost EVERY DAY . Kind has two plurals, the old unchanged kind and the newer kinds. The original plural can still be used in the expressions these/those kind of : " —Usage. The phrase THESE (or...

Apart from love , my life had always reminded me of reality, so standing on my own two feet was not an option but m y destiny. Since 15, I had worked at many kinds of part time jobs , such as delivering newspapers at dawn, washing dishes in restaurants and even laboring at...

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 ...

Hoey's extension: I would suggest that to know a word such as consequence is, at the very least, to know the answers to the following nine questions about the word: 1 What does consequence mean? (meaning) 2 How is consequence used grammatically?...