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Hi I get more money than I give to or from him instead of Say it this way I get more money from him than I give him to to him You need to say to him for the same reason that you say from him ie the preposition comes before the pronoun You can also omit the to ie I get more money from him than I...

Now that you mention it it does perhaps sound odd like that but is it because of the grammar or the potential redundancy of the lexis When I thought about it it was the occurence of spend and buy together that made it feel odd to me I hope others can dip into this and help me with clarifying it...

Categories or Parts of Speech he pronoun he noun phrase NP is verb a article nice adjective person noun a nice person noun phrase NP is a nice person verb phrase VP These designations come from a system of analysis called transformational grammar Functions he subject is copula a determiner nice...

Doll wrote Mike pointed to my tooth is my tooth indirect object or oblique It is direct object I think I went to her her is NOT indirect object nor any other type of object is it Hmm I would say it is direct object Let me disagree with the comments in pink To put it simply a direct object can...

In the statement I gave a book to Marc Is Marc the indirect object or the object of the preposition to It depends on which grammar book you read Some systems say that only the version without a preposition should be called an indirect object In such a system I gave a book to Marc doesn t have an...

than me sounds much more normal to me than than I http andromeda rutgers edu jlynch Writing t html Than as used in comparatives has traditionally been considered a conjunction as such if you re comparing subjects the pronouns after than should take the subjective case In other words He s taller...

It s a shame to have to keep flogging this for the Anons who don t have a grammar book but You understood SubjectGive Verb the package Direct Object of give to preposition whoever comes to the door clause object of preposition whoever S comes V to the door prepositional phrase as adverbial of...

Hi I have the following grammar questions Do please help me with the correct answers to the following questions Thanking you in anticipation Regards Manu 1 Choose the sentence that illustrates the correct agreement of subject and verb A Either the students or the teacher have made a mistake B...

MichalS wrote Hi I m a new member on the forum My name s Michal and I m from Poland I ve been learning descriptive grammar of Enlgish lately Reading LONGMAN Grammar of Spoken and Written English I ve come across a couple of problems which are hard for me to overcome I hope that you will help me...

Hello KhoffI understand what you mean EX 1 Yesterday she taught her students the Pythagoras theorem EX 2 Yesterday she taught the Pythagoras theorem to her students The two sentences are almost the same in meaning so some traditional grammarians insist that her students in to her students of EX 2...