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quote user Taka I think what the author is trying to say is when you change trains quote Yes that s most likely the intent quote user Taka but is that when to grammatically acceptable quote Not here No when to clauses are indirect questions hence they function as noun phrases I didn t know when...

Neither of these is a well formed complete sentence __ The first when going to a party means when at the time that it becomes dangerous to go to a party It s an adverbial subordinate clause When going to a party becomes dangerous it s time to think seriously about the situation When At the time...

FYI Indian English the largest second language variety of English is undergoing a process of structural nativization that leads to the variety developing a semi autonomous norm developing potential http hrza1 hrz uni giessen de forschungsbericht layout einzel95 cfm FB 05 amp Institut 2100 amp...

Hello guys I m a non native anonymous poster But I d like to throw my two cents Children begin to learn the norm before their linguistic skills are far enough developed to understand a verbal description of what they are learning This kind of learning has sometimes been called imitation but that...

Becomes It would cost some amount to buy a lot of new clothes Direct question form How much would it cost to buy a lot of new clothes Indirect question noun phrase form how much it would cost to buy a lot of new clothes He worried about this how much it would cost to buy a lot of new clothes Jim...

Excellent excellent observation Good analyses 1 It would do no harm to use they to refer to clothes 2 It seems more idiomatic to me to use preposed it to refer to an infinitive phrase 3 It is easy to see that I have already created three sentences in this posting with this type of preposed it Let...