By Noun phrases, English grammar

Hello Anonymous,In your sentences there is no adjective phrases.A phrase is a name used in the english grammar to label a group of words which acts as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence,which means that you need at least two words to label some part of the sentence a phrase. Words,phrases...

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...

Question 1Although the question has already been answered, I should like to comment on why arise is the correct choice. The subject of the clause should any difference arise is difference, which is singular and third person. One of the fundamental principles of English grammar is that the subject...

Teo wrote: 1. I don't like to go. 2. I don't like going. According to Ho's Complete English Grammar (Page 111), #1 implies that I don't like to go (so I will not go) while #2 implies that I don't like going (but I will still go). Do you agree? Hi Teo, I don’t like (spicy foods)/...

I have desperately been looking for a good book on grammar. I don not mean the practical grammar in use, but a book on grammar as an element of the linguistic system. It should contain topics like: syntactic units syntactic relations syntactic functions verb phrases morphological...

Hello IglikaI'm sorry I could not give you definite answers. Frankly speaking, I myself do not know much about generative grammar. But please remind there is a possibility your teacher uses grammatical terms in his/her own way. As far as I know, "modifier" is a term used by traditional...

Diamondrg wrote:Can someone explain why "having viewed" is wrong and whether "viewing" and "to have viewed" are correct? The question you are raising may relate to the problem to what extent we can use nonfinite clauses as a post modifier for nouns. This problem is, however, one of the subjects...

Hello guysThank you all again. I would like to appreciate above all CJ's nice explanation about appositive to-infinitives. I misread the sentence in question because I didn't know we can use a to-infinitive noun phrase appositively. My big mistake was I parsed the sentence as: ...

Summarising: Three ways of looking at it. Extracts from the Geoffrey Leech article, " />English Grammar in Conversation. View 1: Spoken English has no grammar at all: it is grammatically inchoate. (That view) ...does not need to be taken seriously, although it is surprisingly persistent in the...

Nothing's sure-shot in English grammar, Sunu. Just the old guidelines: the subject is usually the performer of the verb's action, and the object is usually its recipient. The subject is usually the first noun phrase in a sentence, and it is the only noun phrase that the verb agrees with....