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Hello Please look at the three sentences below, which I picked up online. 1. She spent the time in working at home 2. She spent the time working at home. 3. The time working at home is gradually increasing. Sentence #1 was traditionally deemed as a grammatical form, but people nowadays prefer...

Your question is quite intriguing. Professsor Okada, a linguist teaching English in a college in Osaka, gives a lecture on this matter. As the original article is written in Japanese, I'll summarize it with my poor English writing skill. (Query 24) Why is the verb is not "are" but "is" in the...

Many English nouns and noun phrases can be used as adverbs. They are called "adverbial objectives". From the standpoint of word order, an adverbial objective is put as if it were an objective of a verb, but actually it works as an adverbial modifier of the verb. This sort of constructs comes from...