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Congratulations on your hard work. - A. Edit. "Why is the article "the" essential here?"

I have always heard in conversation - that must be him / her on the phone. Of course we say:He is on the phone now. Grammatically, "that must be him" it is not strictly correct, since the case of a pronoun after "be" is nominative. However, in this case (must be ***), we...

Avangi, I couldn't agree more! You have arrived at the nitty-gritty of language ! (Zero article!) That's the only way it happens, no matter what usage experts say, sometimes for a long time! Some people have been objecting to using like as a conjunction in sentences like Do like I say!...

Actually, I think I have already said what I had to say in my response to your post about the cats and alligators. But I'll go over some of your concerns : I think I saw from a post here that kind of said that many times, having "descriptive adjectives" in front of UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS...

Imagine a language in which: “The man hit the table with a stick” is “Copoloteko tipadela tisadure asutariki bu.” In this sentence co = a classifier indicating that we are talking about something animate polo = man te = a nominative case marker ko = the speaker wishes to...

What is the word sucks in " Homework sucks " ? Is it a verb or an adjective? If it is a verb, what does homework suck? This brings up an excellent point, and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English language. The question at hand is " Does an English...

1) My little brother would not turn down the radio volume in the morning. MY = possessive adjective LITTLE = DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE BROTHER = noun WOULD = modal auxiliary NOT = NEGATIVE PARTICLE TURN = main verb DOWN = adverb particle THE =...

Dear teachers, Would you please tell me if my analysis is correct ? 1) My little brother would not turn down the radio volume in the morning. MY = possessive adjective LITTLE = determinative adjective (quantifier) BROTHER = noun WOULD = modal auxiliary NOT = ?? TURN = main verb...

Hello guys I know we had a conclusion on the subject but I'd like to put some additional information. The article below is a description in a book (written in Japanese) by Late Dr Toshio Nakao, a scholar who taught the history of the English language in several colleges in Japan and in Great...

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html Probably no "grammatical error" has received as much scorn as "misuse" of pronoun case inside conjunctions (phrases with two parts joined by is an object that requires object case, it does not mean that is an...