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Mister Micawber 523306 Thu 05 Jun 08 11 16 AM Sentence A Participle phrase The corporation seeking financial stability must remain flexible Sentence B Sentence fragment A cure for the disease being researched Sentence C A complete sentence A cure for the disease was being researched There is no...

Hi I am reading Huddleston amp Pullum s CGEL and I ve run into a problem I don t understand how to analyze WH questions with both subject auxiliary inversion and Couldn t somebody help me out Let us take the sentence What did the Captain say as an example Here the Captain is obviously the subject...

I posted this question earlier without logging in This is a re post of it Sorry about the error Thank you Began Closing 1 He began closing the door Is began an auxiliary verb in the sentence And what about closing Is it a participle modifying he a gerund functioning as the direct object or the...

She used to have long hair Form used to base form of verb Function Expresses past habits and states that are no longer true in the present Phonology The final d in used is elided The o in to is often pronounced in its weak form and can sound like ta This is represented with the phonetic symbol...

lt Milky wrote I have agreed that certain BE speaking individuals do not follow the must subjective have to objective line and that their use may be either regional idiolectic or influenced by AE use This is like saying All swans are white except the ones that are black Nonetheless all swans are...