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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...

Hi, I'm confused about when should we use a gerund after 'to', I know that if 'to' is a preposition, then it must either be followed by a gerund or noun, the thing is, I cannot differentiate whether 'to' is a preposition or part of a to-infinitive. One suggestion was: "It is possible to...

on 18 Dec 2003: Wouldn't it be even clearer and more useful to say that the indefinite article "a" is always used with a singular noun and that it indicates "one"? Then how do you explain the singular indefinite article being used with the plural noun "fathers"...