"Nominative" is the adjectival form of "noun." It doesn't get used very much on this site. I think I've seen MrP use it one time. It's always something of a tossup as to whether a "noun phrase"

For my brother to feel, that he does not know the right term, must seem a real impediment. Hi frankie, thanks for joining us. Welcome to English Forums. Nix the comma after "feel." The feeling is bad. If this were your sentence, the

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

I'm so cross with myself. I can't even cite material correctly. Here is the sentence! It was on his way back past them, carrying a large burger, that he heard what they were saying. He= subject was= main verb on his way= preposition plus

either "learners of the English language," or "English language learners." Why is article the essential here? There is only one English language. e.g. I'm learning Chinese language these days. Is there any need to specify

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

When the majority of native speakers prefer an incorrect usage, grammarians respond. 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

Thank you, Mr. M. That is as you said, I think. As to the first one, I think like this. His dog is a happiness. (a kind of happiness his dog is.) As to the second sentence, why no article here? I think it is because eventhough it is

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