Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Hello, Raja, It goes without saying that there is no blame in being a non-native speaker and a layperson in linguistic science, so

CalifJim , Thank you for your very helpful answer! It provides a nice and very useful recipe for forming a question which rests on a gappy statement! And it definitely helped me a lot in further clarifying my question and to reframe it in your

Hello Gleb, Thank you, again, for your answer! Let me say from the outset, that I am neither a native speaker, nor an expert in linguistics, but nonetheless interested, so please forgive me that I am not as well-versed as far as technical terms

Raja, let me make a number of essential clarifications: 1. ' Hence , that the 'do'-construction in "Who went to the park?" is not possible or at least less preferable (which of the two is it in your opinion?) in "Who

Hi To emphasize a place, time or reason we can use: the place where ... the day when ... the reason why ... In informal styles, the place/the day/the reason can be dropped. Often times this happens if it's somewhere in the middle of the

Hi Alc I will begin with a few comments. Maybe someone else will add more. 2 This piece of meat isn't diced /cut as well as the other BOTH "Diced meat" would normally be a reference to many, very small pieces of meat. Therefore,

For "If-Clause", I understand that there are three authentic forms of it. -If I work hard, I will succeed. -If I worked hard, I would succeed. -If I had worked hard, I would have been a successful person already. However, do you think

is "You speaking German are cute" grammatically incorrect? Not if you say it right. You, speaking German, are cute. You (speaking German) are cute. You -- speaking German -- are cute. It's pretty strange, but with the right

1a. Crews worked at containment, | keeping the oil from spreading. 1b. Crews worked at | containment, keeping the oil from spreading. At first sight, it looks a little ambiguous; 1b suggests "apposition", and 1a, a participial qualifier

The adverbs (or the last words) in each clause usually have almost identical intonation, from high to low. A single syllable word like "now" would have the hi-lo across the syllable. For a two syllable word with the accent on the first