Search results for 'tag:Hyphens tag:Pronouns' matching tags 'Hyphens' and 'Pronouns'

Re: word classes

Clive — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:46:59 GMT

Hi,

When she was 16-years-old a 16-year-old is a noun. 16 years old (ie no hyphens) is an adjectival phrase
she ran away (preposition) from home and moved to London, then (adverb) New York to work as (adverb) a nurse. During (preposition) her time in New York, she kept in contact with (preposition) her sister. She said âI donât know what (pronoun) Iâll do about it, but I donât see why (noun) we should just (adverb) waitâ¦ And I always (adverb) had that picture in my mind, all adverb through this time.â

German (adjective?) inventor (noun) John Smith...

She travelled far, crossing (verb present participle) several army (noun used as an adjective?) checkpoints, until she was expelled from (preposition) the country.

Some of these words are not easy to classify.
Best wishes, Clive

Re: malnutrition that's becoming more and more widespread

Cool Breeze — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:42:46 GMT

New2grammar
Dozens of UN humanitarian workers are exposed to risk on their job every day. A good example is truck drivers who deliver much needed food to remote villages in poor countries to combat malnutrition, which is becoming more and more widespread.

Hi N2G

It has become more and more fashionable to use hyphens in English and therefore some might put a hyphen between much and needed but I don't think that is necessary. I wouldn't object to one, either. Clearly, the relative clause is a non-defining one and thus a comma is needed, which means that which is the correct pronoun.

Re: grammar doubts!

Mister Micawber — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:59:09 GMT

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(1) So, can we use hyphen in the above sentence as "five-years-old" or is it wrong to use?-- Wrong. 'A three-year-old' is a pronoun.

(2) Does the second sentence need any correction or rephrasing? -- In the first sentence, no comma after Spectator. In the second sentence, I would prefix 'most' with 'that of'.

(3) Do we need hyphen in door-to-door? -- No; it is not an adjective

(4) Can "At the time" changed to "At that time"? -- Yes. And you do not need the commas around Peter-- they slow the narrative.

(5) Please check S-V agreement in "the bulk of her protests were"? Should it be was?-- I'd go with 'were' on grounds of conceptual concord... and then change 'the bulk of' to 'most of'. Also, prefix 'any' with 'those of'.

(6) Should it be to "visit him"? --Yes, no 'with'. And a comma is required after 'Emerson'.

(7) Should it be "who offered her a position of teaching languages"? -- No; what you have is fine

Re: Does this sentence sound right?

Cool Breeze — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:50:51 GMT

I find your sentence very satisfactory. It may be Jane Austenish but there is no law against such language even today. Why should everybody speak and write in exactly the same way in English? People don't do that in many other languages. I see no mistakes in punctuation or hyphens but I know one native forum member who would consider the sentence incorrect because it contains a relative clause from which the relative pronoun has been omitted even though it is the subject of the clause: Their disdain rarely failed to evoke in him a delayed sense of self-irony [which/that was] not at all fatal in nature.

Re: Comma or Hyphen? Please advise.

Grammar Geek — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:30:08 GMT

Just a side note, with nothing to do with the commas: ...and giving it to its soldiers.

Most corporations do not have soldiers, so this pronoun leaves me wondering who or what the soldiers do belong to. Of course, if this is science fiction, then perhaps the corporation does have soldiers.

Re: Is preposition always followed by a noun?

Jackson6612 — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:15:36 GMT

I think a preposition can only be followed by noun, pronoun, gerund, and noun phrase. Please have a look on this POST.

Link:

www.englishforums.com/English/DifferenceBetweenMeaningThese-SentencesUsedPlayCricket/***/Post.htm

Use v-b-x-x-v without hyphens in place of *** in the above link.

Re: Examining phrases

Clive — Sat, 19 May 2007 05:02:19 GMT

Hi,

I have two phrases below and wish you would answer some questions.

1. uses as a "getting to know each other" game/activity

How do we know when do hypenate the phrase in quotation marks or just write them out as a person has done obviously above?

The purpose of hyphens would be to show that these words are all related. The quotation marks already do that, so there is no further need to add hyphens.

Wrriting it without quotes as uses as a getting-to-know-each-other" game/activity seems like a very awkward and clumsy approach. I'd suggest rewording to something like uses as a game/activity for getting to know each other.

How do we decide when to capitalize the first word or letter of the phrase in quotation marks? A general guideline would be to capitalize if the words being quoted themselves originally had a capital letter. eg If it is the start of a quoted sentence. Or a proper name, of course.

2. a question accompanied by a follow up "why?" for reasons

Is it OK to use a pronoun in quotation marks as a noun? It's OK by me. It would get a bit irritating if you did it a lot. It would make the reader's job a bit more difficult. Can you give me some simple instances where this kind of thing is used? eg We often refer to a ship as 'she'. eg hat part of speech is 'it'.

Can a noun in quotation marks be preceded by some adjectives and an article? Yes. eg Mary called Tom a selfish, stupid 'moron'. The quotes suggest that only the word 'moron' is a direct quote from Mary's mouth. The adjectives may be the reporter's parphrase.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: British built or British-built

Rotter — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:11:33 GMT

Thanks Clive

Please look at the following sentences of the above.

Nearby, a huge crane waited to lift it into place on top of the church dome, for the crowning moment of a reconciliation process that has lasted nearly 60 years - and is not entirely over yet.

The Frauenkirche is the symbol of the bombing of Dresden, a huge British attack in 1945 that killed 35,000 people in a ferocious firestorm.
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My question is on the hyphen. Is it a hyphen or a dash?

I would just write a comma instead of the hyphen.

.......... has lasted nearly 60 years, and it is no entirely over yet.
[ I think the word 'it' has strong significance here. I don't know why it is correct to eliminate the pronoun 'it'.]

Re: Highly important question.

Mister Micawber — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:20:15 GMT

VERY interesting question, Guest-- because it caused me to discover that Google does not distinguish between hyphenated words and two-word nouns. Results:

'Woman hater'- 8170 hits
'Woman-hater' - 8170 hits
'Women hater' - 5090 hits
'Women-hater' - 5090 hits

I'd say they are all acceptable, although my own preference is for 'he is a woman-hater' and 'he is a woman-hating scandalmonger'. The hyphen avoids the confusion about his sex. (In olden days, the masculine pronoun resolved this confusion, but nowadays it is no longer obvious.)