By Idioms, Predicates

Jackson6612 wrote: Hi G.G. 1: What do you mean by ''I'm assuming you mean immediately after...''? In answering your question, I made the assumption that you wanted to know about adjectives that came immedately after the nouns they modify, not predicate adjectives. In "He is happy" happy is...

Most past participle (-ed) forms can serve as adjectives, and they won't be listed in the dictionaries as such unless there is a peculiarity about them, as with crooked or sunken. It is sometimes not easy to judge whether you are confronted with a passive form (She was astounded by the passing...

Mister Micawber wrote:.Hello Angela-- and welcome to English Forums. I see that you have brought your question over from UsingEnglish. Since Mike may well answer your question there, I will be brief:I don't think #1 and 2 are idioms.#3-5 should just bracket to be, as a linking verb, because...

.Hello Angela-- and welcome to English Forums. I see that you have brought your question over from UsingEnglish. Since Mike may well answer your question there, I will be brief:I don't think #1 and 2 are idioms.#3-5 should just bracket to be, as a linking verb, because the other words are...

Maple wrote:Not all that Mrs.Bennet,however ,with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr.Bingley. This is how I read it: Not (all) that Mrs.Bennet,however ,with the assistance of her five...

Not all that Mrs.Bennet,however ,with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr.Bingley. This is how I read it: Not (all) that Mrs.Bennet,however ,with the assistance of her five daughters, could...

(Mr M forgot to log in again!-- MM) It is a matter of natural sentence flow and stress for meaning. Let's write it like a prose sentence: I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. Spoken in conversation, sentences carry several levels of stress, not just stressed and...