By Negatives, Predicates

1. "women" - use plural to match "the elderly" & "are more LIKELY" 2. The goals of our program ARE - use plural verb with plural subject 3. MANY benefits - "Much" is for stuff; "many" is for things you can count. 4. there IS a lot of space (missing verb in clause) ...

Well, would you have trouble perceiving this sentence in your native language? I suppose, no. That's the solution: learn English until you develop "a hardware support" for it, i.e until language processing is shifted beneath the conscious. BTW, double negation, while working in Boolean logic,...

"I don't want to go." (= I do not want to go.)do = auxiliary needed in this negative clause, present tensewant = plain/bare present infinitive, or infinitive without a to particle, which has been omitted due to doThese two verbs can be said to be the main verb of the sentence. Please note that...

(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...

Just as "too" is added to a second, similar affirmative statement, "either" is added to a second, similar negative statement. The two cannot be interchanged. In this pattern two different subjects have the same predicate. Canada requires this, and Mexico requires this . We can shorten...

Hello Teo again Let's start with the normal predicate "The whole land is before you". And first let's negate it and then change it to a question form by inverting the subject and the finite verbal. Then the process would be like as the below: (Informal NEG) The whole land isn't before you....

Hello paco First of all, what's this {!} 'Boku-wa kimi-o ooini aisu'! {ha-ha!} H'mm ... we can say • 'totemo-aishiteiru' ┈ ('totemo' as a verbal/predicate intensifier, not only as a adjectival intensifier) • 'ooini-utsukushii-hana' ┈ ? (but now I'm getting accustomed.., seems it's a matter of...

Dear MrPedantic, yulysess, and Roro, We have opened several issues in this thread. I would like to go over some of them and state what my thinking is about them now that we have discussed them. MrPedantic's original post asked why very and much cannot be used equally,...

Hello guys One of my dictionaries (Genius E-J dictionary) explains the adverbial use of "much" as follows: "Much" can be used to modify some negative-sense adjectives like "annoyed", "confused" or "distressed". Positive-sense adjectives are modified by "very" or "very much" when they are used...

I agree with Abbie. Unless (predicate) = If not (predicate). So Unless we don't hear from you = If not (we don't hear from you) = If we hear from you So Unless we don't hear from you, the order will not be cancelled. = If we hear from you, the order will not be...