By Nouns, Clauses

Hello,I'm reading about adverbial clauses and conjunctions, and the following discussions confuse me:The book says:These conjunctions frequently begin adversial clauses that indicate degree or comparison: as, than, etc.My relatives arrived earlier than they usually do.In this example, the...

Hi, I read the following sentences in a book. I don't understand why the first sentence use 'food' instead of 'foods' . The second sentence shows that food is a countable noun. 'Food' can be both countable and non-countable, and we often don't much care about...

Hi,I read the following sentences in a book. I don't understand why the first setence use 'food' instead of 'foods' . The second sentence shows that food is a countable noun. Also as a side question, why there is no comma before 'and', in #1sentence, even though it is...

Surely you can invent one of your own choosing! Make a sentence like the one the original poster submitted, extending it with another relative clause. He's already got who and that. Add which somewhere. Maybe you can even get a whom or a where in your sentence, too! CJ

Not here. No. when to clauses are indirect questions, hence, they function as noun phrases:I didn't know when to change trains.Be sure to tell him when to change trains.They don't function as adverbs:*You have to walk when to change trains.*Be sure to read the posted signs when to...

Hi,1. Is this conditional? No. 2 Conditional, perhaps? What troubles me is I think I saw all these variations in the if--clause. Is this possible?I would appreciate it if you can call/would calll/could call/call this person as soon as possible.2. Is this structure possible?It's a little bit...

Nominal, you can differentiate them by their function. In every example the clause is the subject, which is one of the functions of the noun. Therefore, they are nominal. To be adjectival they have to identify or qualify a noun (adjective function)

I learned from my grammar books that we usually use only one "will" in either the main clause or the noun clause/relative clause. For example: I'll give 10 dollars to anybody who washes my car. The man who marries my daughter will need to be tough and quick-thinking. This...

Actually, "to find / that the house had been burgled," is a non-finite clause. The non-finite verb "to find" (infinitive) takes as its object a finite clause ("that the house has been burgled").The object slot could have been filled with a noun phrase, or...

1) They arrived home to find that the house has been burgled. It is more appropriate to treat the main clause as ' They arrived home to find ' and the subordinate clause as ' that the house has been burgled '.Then, this subordinate clause is a finite clause (actually a noun...