I'm so cross with myself. I can't even cite material correctly. Join the club! Have you finally got it right? Here is the sentence! It was on his way back past them, carrying a large burger, that he heard what they were saying. He =

Secondly, does a noun phrase always have a complementizer at the start of it (head)? No. According to the description in Wiki, complementizers are the syntactic head of a full clause. A noun phrase is not a full clause. Example: "the grand

Aha! This one is a little difficult. Absent earlier context setting the present time, "earlier in the evening" does two things. It establishes that the present time is this evening . And it establishes that Chavez picked the thing up at

IMHO to use the indefinite article (or none) would imply that it might not be there, in contrast to your opening clause. Of course "It is there to dig" may mean "That's where one should dig." (It does have kind of an

IMHO to use the indefinite article - replace it with "some" - (or none) would imply that it might not be there, in contrast to your opening clause. Of course "It is there to dig" may mean "That's where one should

you would usually have a "when something else happened" that goes with it You would usually have an accompanying clause that indicates when something else happened. You would usually have a when-something-else-happened clause that goes

Hi Awence The sentence is less than perfect to me as well. It begins with a subordinate clause introduced with a causal for and the next clause begins with and , a coordinating conjunction. After these comes yet another subordinate clause, a

I think there are a couple way to look at this. One is the use of the word 'thereof' and what it means. It is defined as such: thereof -adverb: of or concerning this, that or it When the word 'thereof' is used it gets its

Hi Believer Don't look for logic with regard to articles in English. Adjectival attributes very often bring on an indefinite article: A new culture was born. A relative clause may do the same: We need a culture that is totally different from what

Here's what I would say: We are going to stay in/at a nice hotel, just like famous actors. I wouldn't use the same as here at all. I might say: We stayed at the same hotel as famous actors. You have an indefinite article in the main clause,