Hi, Help me help my daughter understand what a continuous noun is. Sorry, I'm not familiar with this term. Possibly it refers to a noun phrase, eg an old black horse. Possibly it is a technical term in the field of

what might be called an indefinte expression? No. By indefinite expression I meant, in essence, an indefinite noun phrase. Thus, the following are indefinite expressions. They typically do not refer to any specific instance of anything: money a

a bolt from the blue= an accident happen suddenly Literally it means a bolt of lightning from blue sky. Would you expect lighting to come from a cloudless sky? Of course, it is a figurative expression. It frequently refers to an idea that comes

The phrase is a noun phrase, and it is incorrectly incorporated into your sentence. Perhaps: I intended to go to the movies tonight, but like a bolt from the blue , my teacher suddenly want us to take a test tomorrow.

To the last question, I learned long ago that it's incorrect to use bare infinitve after "committing". The rule of thumb is, certain verbs take the gerund form even though bare infinitve may appear to be the correct answer.

My Am. Htg. dictionary definition of "appositive" gives me the impression that both the appositive and the word or phrase it represents must be nouns or noun phrases. If this is true, the appositive can have only an adjectival function.

Michael, welcome! You have posed a knotty question! Here are some thoughts. When I have trouble with possessives, I think of the equivalent "of" construction. In this case, I think you mean: the needs of (each of our patients)... The

Morpho -syntactic analysis Whole sentences (Complex sentence) Raindrops, the size of green peas, plopped on the hospital roof as I sat on a hospital cart , slowly being guided toward my room. Raindrops = Subject (the doer) The size of green peas

The police caught her using the credit card . I'd say here it modifies "her," unless you mean to say the police used the credit card to nab her. Then It would modify the verb, not the police. (Forgive me for writing an ambiguous

. Both different from and different than are acceptable. Here's a Canadian perspective (University of Victoria): "Different from" is the more accurate and acceptable form: "Apples are different from oranges," "He was