By Noun phrases, Negatives

Hi Hoa, You are pretty brave to dare this thread! The discussion about the “as such” usage, to me, was actually more of a reflection of how we interpret what a noun or noun phrase is, rather than grammatical correctness. As I found on one of the site, it said: "As such" -as being what is...

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 As you said -ish and -like are both used as a suffix to form an adjective from a noun. And you are quite right that -ish gives a negative sense to the adjective. OED says "X-ish" is usually an adjective to mean "having the qualities of X" (e.g., boorish, foolish, swinish). But some words...

He got an excellent grade in his examination .............. the fact that he had not worked particularly hard.a) on account of b) because of c) in spite of d) although 2. If no one ..................... President Kennedy, ..................... things ..................... different now? ...

Hello Taka I know you get unpleasant with this, but please allow me to put my two cents on your question. "He learned to smoke" If we compare this with "He learned English", we see "to smoke" here is working as a noun phrase. If we negate the action "smoke", we get a sub-surface collocation...

Hi, this is my first post to the group. I’ve just pasted information from Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. To be quite frank, I don’t really understand these definitions fully but I hope the information is useful to you. So, regarding the words 1 Than 2 that 1 Than is normally used to...