By Grammar, Constructions

Re: to focus - Passive or Active voice?

Complete any of the phrases above by adding any of these: frightened of snakes, interested in science, focused on his studies, tired of reading, fascinated by insects, bored with grammar.None of the resulting sentences has a passive construction.CJ

translation of song INTO English (check my work, please)

Hello! CHECK SOMEONE MY TRANSLATION OF LYRICS INTO ENGLISH, PLEASE! My friend is a member of music band. He gave my his lyrics (they are short texts) and asked me to translate them into English. But I'm not good enough in English to translate lyrics - I lack knowledge about phraseal verbs,...

nor

Hi, At The American Heritage Book of English Usage at Bartleby.com in the section named "1. Grammar: Traditional Rules, Word Order, Agreement, and Case", I saw this line in its note: However, when a verb is negated by not or never, and is followed by a negative verb phrase (but not an...

Re: bring/ carry/take the donkey to...

Vincent, <edit>If this help you at all, human always walk an animal. i.e. John always walks his dog to the park after dinner. “John is walking with a donkey to the market” just sounds odd to me. If the donkey wasn’t carrying farm produce, shouldn’t John be riiding the donkey? Perhaps You...

Re: AMERICANS PLEASE HELP!!

First of all, you need some grammar too, because I noticed typical Asian mistakes, or non native constructions anyway.Here's the best tips I can give you:1 - Get a grammar book, and read it, learning the most common structures. "English grammar in use" by Cambridge University Press...

grammar doubts

(1) As I thought about the subject, it seems to me that the teachings of Jesus and the sacred texts of the New Testament would be a good starting point for us to engage tonight&rsquo;s subject of What on Earth is Evangelism? The text in the New Testament, at the end of what we call the Sermon...

Re: gotten

You can certainly generalize to the negative actions that can be inflicted upon a person, as shown in your examples. But you can't apply all three patterns to all past participles. For example, you may say,He could have been driven to the station. But I would consider it awkward to use got...

Re: were late / would be late

Oh my, I'm so surprised! I would never have thought you said it yourself! By the way, you said "If I'd have known", and not "If I'd known" (which can't mean "If I would have known", because you would be leaving out a syllable...).Anyway, I'll tell...

Re: construction difference.

I don't disagree with the grammar - I disagree with the logic in terms of the nature of the word attack. It's sudden, immediate. How does a dog "start" to attack someone? It jumps at you, snaps at you, bites at you... all of which are actually attacking you, not "starting...

Re: participle vs verb-ing

Newcomer,I see that you are confused with the participle usage. I'll try to give it my best shot to explain to you what I've understood about participles. "what is the man who does up there" (sounds incorrect) *asking what the man is doing* literally ( doing as verb ) => ...