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Yes, I should've done it myself first I got it. I thought the word order was adverb + adjective first, but these are an adjective and a noun phraze, I suppose. By the way, 'favorite' is countable, so; These are particular favorites of mine. Is this correct?

Hi Hoa Thai There were a number of details that I considered in my last post. These included the following: - Sold out used strictly as a verb vs sold out used like an adjective - Verb tense - Using sold vs sold out (particularly in combination with the word 'all') - Word order (i.e. Does...

Hi, Can you please explain to me more thoroughly the meaning of the sentence ( i can't get the idea here) 'As a reader aloud of his own work, Andersen was unsurpassed , and this tale ( the ugly duckling) is always a favourite' Andersen sometimes read his own work aloud, to other...

Hello, Janissary, 1. If a clause begins with a negative adverb, inverted word order must usually be used, with the subject following the Simple Present or Simple Past of the verb to be , or the first auxiliary. In the case of the Simple Present or Simple Past of any verb other than the...

It is not so simple as that, Flora, but you have the general idea. Good poetry follows natural word stress and sentence stress (I use ' u ' for unstressed and ' / ' for stressed syllables)-- Trees , by Joyce Kilmer 1 I think that I shall never see u/u/u/u/ 2 A poem as lovely...

Viognier wrote: I have an elementary question: what's the difference in meaning between: #1 He walked two hours. #2 He walked for two hours. I've learned that #1 is more natural. But #2 is natural too, isn't it? Hello Roro I'm sorry I am too late to answer. Today my computer...

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...

The sentence "We saw the man on the hill with a telescope" can be analyzed in the following way. The standard simple sentce structure -> Subject + verb + object + complement + Adverbial Qualification ( reference wren & martiin ) Here, the man becomes Object. The advective phrase is always...

In addition to the fabulous information given so far, please note, every word in a sentence has a form (what it looks like) and a function (what it does). Let's look at "up", its form and function in this sentence: 1. We called him up . Given the word order, we know right away that "up" is...

If it answers the question Where?, it's an adverb. Like this, Adverb Test Q: Where is his hiding place? A: It's nearby. (Adverb) It it modifies a noun, then it's an adjective. Like this, Adjective Test Q: What kind of hiding place? A: A hiding place that is nearby. Note, the entire...