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Dear MM, I sincerely appreciate your great explanation (The answer probably can't be found elsewhere. Not to mention the Grammar books). Some online dictionaries stated that the inflected forms of both the adjective and adverb of "heavy" are the same that confuse me. ...

(Yay, I got the quote thing down!) Thanks for your time Avangi, I truly appreciate it. But I must say I'm just about as depressed as can be :(, because now I'm think I, as someone learning English as a 2nd language, am.....(pardon my languaged here) screwed. I don't thik I...

Hi, In the book named "Longman English Grammar" by L. G. Alexander in the section 8 named "Prepositions, Adverb particles, and Phrasal verbs," I saw this sentence. What does 'case' mean to you? English uses more prepositions than most other European languages,...

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...

<< What I understood is that 'As much' is used as an adverbial to comapre the degree of the noun 'duty'. to compare the degree of being a duty, yes. There is no "degree of the noun duty ". Do we need to use singlar noun to denote the comparison of degree? No. These are as much...

Rith wrote: Some English grammar books say that you can use ＜ during which ＞ instead of ＜ when ＞ in a relative adverb clause. Is it always true? Well, I'm not sure. Certainly, ＜ during which ＞ and ＜ when ＞ are both time-related expressions. However, while ＜ when ＞ in a...

Some English grammar books say that you can use ＜ during which ＞ instead of ＜ when ＞ in a relative adverb clause. Is it always true? Well, I'm not sure. Certainly, ＜ during which ＞ and ＜ when ＞ are both time-related expressions. However, while ＜ when ＞ in a relative adverb...

Forbes wrote: Cool Breeze, your English is faultless! I think that Mr P has hit the nail on the head. In English the complexity resides in the syntax. Many say that English has no "grammar" because you do not need to grapple with conjugations and declensions, but of course if it had no...

Maverick9211 wrote: I can ' t differeniate between abt n oun s , v erb s , a djective s , a dverb s , etc . I am not very bad at E nglish. I do understand E nglish very well. I can speak English, but n ot in fluen tly. I can't write it very well. L et ' s make do it this...

Clive wrote: I don't see any of these as relative clauses. They are noun clauses. eg noun clause I read what he wrote. e g relative clause I read the letter which he wrote . Here, which he wrote is relative (ie relates to) the noun 'letter'. I don't see any indirect questions,...