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Recall that * means ungrammatical. _____ one is always countable. *coarse sand and fine one; *white sugar and brown one; *fresh milk and spoiled one; *British English and American one; *good knowledge and bad one But (countable): a happy child and a sad one; happy children...

Conjunctive adverbs, or simply "conjuncts", do exist, and are different from sentence adverbials.These conjuncts link sentences or paragraphs and usually appear at the beginning of a sentence. The adverbials Anonymous mentioned in their first post, those that tell us something...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: Welkins2139 wrote: Inchoateknowledge wrote: Some people say that it is wrong for the government to spend much money on artistic projects, such as paintings and sculptures in public places ." "In public places , an adverbial phrase, modfies on artistic projects , an...

Welkins2139 wrote: Inchoateknowledge wrote: Some people say that it is wrong for the government to spend much money on artistic projects, such as paintings and sculptures in public places ." "In public places , an adverbial phrase, modfies on artistic projects , an adjective phrase. " ...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: Some people say that it is wrong for the government to spend much money on artistic projects, such as paintings and sculptures in public places ." "In public places , an adverbial phrase, modfies on artistic projects , an adjective phrase. " "In public places ,...

Some people say that it is wrong for the government to spend much money on artistic projects, such as paintings and sculptures in public places ." "In public places , an adverbial phrase, modfies on artistic projects , an adjective phrase. " "In public places , an adverbial phrase" Yes,...

Isn't "to have met you" a noun phrase (an infinitive phrase)? A clause requires a finite verb, and an infinitive ("to have") is a nonfinite verb. Anyway, "to have met you" modifies the adjective "glad", so I guess it could be seen as a kind of adverb. Unfortunately, these grammatical terms...

Hi, Can someone please do these questions. Question 1. For each example below say wether the modifiers of the verb are complements or adjuncts. N B, Ignore the subject noun phrase In each example the 'verb' is in bold. 1) Mm Makutsi WIELDED her knife expertly. 2) Mma Ramotswe...

Hello, Hela. Your analysis of the first sentence (I gave my sister a cat for her birthday) is correct. I'd be happy with calling the prepositional phrase "for her birthday" an adjunct (adverbial) of time, though some more accurate label may exist. It's true that R. Quirk does not consider...

Hello CJ again, Thank you for the detailed explanation. I'll review what you've taught me. "The thief would be nice to catch" sounds best fit the review, so please allow me to use it. #1 (IC) . The IC appears, by the transformation, to get changed from a noun phrase to a complement (or...