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Hmm CJ very interesting I know this is really awkward and convoluted but the phrase does refer to the employer Re written as a full dependent clause the relatiohship is a bit clearer Making workers feel undervalued the employer does not listen closely to their suggestions this is a common form...

quote user CalifJim I don t even know the traditional term for the structure we re discussing here with making except that it involves a present participle quote CJ In the classical grammar I learned soon after the emergence of modern English making workers feel undervalued would be analyzed as...

You have made some very complex sentences so it is not easy to explain without a lot of detail Here is my analysis of the grammar in the second sentence I am not an expert in grammar so I invite other members of the forum to comment It pronoun subject is main verb probably adverb modifying...

Grammar is a descriptive process Linguists look at a language and describe how it works However some Linguists describe things differently to others The end result is usually the same but the way they organise it and what all the parts are call varies eg some Linguists say pronouns are a type of...

Here are some examples The main point is to explain the correct answerThe sentences are little bit childisch they are some modified sentences I am afraid that my explanations seems to be a little childisch too So please help me how to turn it into the right explanation Mary was real angry because...

I have noticed that my way of analyzing English differs to an extent from what is taught in the Anglo Saxon countries This is how I see your examples There was never any stopping it Stopping is a gerund It is used without a verb immediately before it after a form of to be was and that is typical...

Radford Transformational Grammar argues that these when while after before since until are all always prepositions However his is not a traditional approach He even denies that there is any necessity of having a category for conjunctions So you see there are a variety of theoretical approaches to...

Thanks for that long and interesting post Velimir 171 Let me be allowed to advise you not to fall for that kind of reasoning I mean Look at me I m a miracle I speak english gorgeuously and I don t have to learn grammar that kind of reasoning 187 I didn t get me right I was talking about the...

CalifJim wrote Goodman In the relevant reading where could is used in the affirmative in an attempt to convey the meaning succeeded which is what Belly and Michael Swan were talking about could cannot be used We ran therefore we could catch were able to catch succeeded in catching caught the bus...

Hoa Thai wrote Belly wrote Ok I understood that drinking implies a continuous activity but it may violate with the parallelsim may not it Not really This sentence contains the vilolation He sat at the terrace and was drinking coffee One clause uses the simple past tense and the other uses the...