Hi, I am doing an assignment of Accounting from Uni. I just need a simple(?) advice on whether I should use 'of' or 'on'. From the following sentence, Historically, the cash collection of sales has been as

Hi! According to my book you use "there" before nouns or noun phrases and "it" before adjectives and noun clauses. What I don't understand is that right after this explanation they stated the following example: -

How can I tell the difference between an adjective phrase, an adverb phrase, and a noun phrase?

Personally I just use what feels correct (for me) in each individual case. Same here. And nine times out of ten I make the agreement with the noun phrase immediately after "none of". I haven't introspected enough to be sure whether

Some people definitly seem to dislike gerunds; they refuse to accept such a word exists and that all gerunds are in fact participles. Although I have not wiped the word gerund out of my brain, I can see some sense in why you choose to ignore that

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

'It's definitly adverbial, answering the question how' Would you say that the italicised words are a gerund phrase? And is therefore an appositive for the word, adverbial? I'd rather stick needles in my eyes. It makes me ill to say

You and Mister Micawber seem to have different opinions on the reduced relative clause. Can you make a further comment? It's impossible to deal with every aspect of the subject of reduced relative clauses within a forum post. Whole chapters of

1. Yes, the difference between a complex noun phrase and a simple one is that the complex noun phrase will contain at least one dependent clause. 2. That's one of the ways of identifying noun clauses. It isn't always east, though, as you

Hi, thanks Miriam! I have never heard of complex noun phrases. Sites I learn from just discuss noun phrases. So the difference between a noun clause and a complex noun phrase is that a complex noun phrase is a noun phrase with one or more