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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...

Goodman, your sentences are active voice. Their construction is: subject + linking verb (to be), + a noun phrase (predicate nominative) . The passive voice, on the other hand, is formed thus: subject + verb to be + past participle of the lexical verb .

When looking up tricky constructions or words, one can often go to the dictionary to view its proper usage. For example, www.dictionary.com shows this definition and usage note for nor: 1. (used in negative phrases, esp. after neither, to introduce the second member in a series, or any subsequent...

Hi, 1. Is the underlined part a noun? It's a noun phrase, ie a phrase that gives more information about the noun 'people'. Is there possibly an ellipted 'to' at work? Yes, you could say ' to make people proud . . . ' What she has done is make people proud of who...

I think it would be useful for students to understand how these constructions relate to simpler sentence patterns, but I haven't found a rationale for classifying them. As I said, other substitutions imply that my last examples are predicate adjectives, e.g. "He seems to be the...

Hi, everyone. I'm wondering if I've understood the concept of 'grammatical subject' in the it -construction correctly and would be grateful for help. For example, in a sentence like, "It lay a dog on the bed" which clearly isn't right - would you call this an...

Thanks everyone. Now I understand that in the "There be" construction, the BE and other verbs that take the place of BE are the main verbs, and the nouns following them agree with them. Originally I thought "going to do" can be followed by either plural nouns or singular nouns because "do"...

Hi, What should I do to use the noun phrases like a "goblin cake" where the noun "goblin" modifies "cake" correctly as a compound noun? What should I look for to decide how much or what is allowed in terms of the correctness of this type of compound noun? I see some unusual constructions but...

I always favored the second construction, but the first construction is also looked to be correct. Is the first one correct in that 'enhancing speaking ability' is a noun phrase? Then, what is to in the first sentence? 1. More attention will be paid to enhancing speaking ability per se...

All of your examples are gerunds if we stick to modern terminology. Forget about the terminology verbal noun . It's total garbage! It has many different definitions, depending on the author and when the grammar book was written. __ The modern definition is given at ...