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This is a very scholarly work dealing with the complexities and analysis of Grammar, with a special section devoted to Gerunds, participles, and infinitive phrases. If you want to read the entire work, it is online. A link to the entire chapter follows. This section is on determining if an -ing...

Kenta wrote: Hello. Is there any difference between "stay home" and "stay at home"? I know both are OK, but if there is a slight difference, will you tell me? Thank you. home is an adverb so you say stay home. I dont think you can say 'stay at home.' You need a possessive...

Philip wrote: My 1992 American Heritage Dictionary lists her/his/my as adjectives, being the possessive forms of she/he/I respectively. Amsco publications in French and Spanish c. 1987 both offer sections for possessive adjectives as opposed to possessive pronouns. I'm not sure when "old"...

Cool Breeze wrote: Hi Philip 'Possessive adjective' is indeed a good term to describe her in the sentences and the term 'pronoun' does suggest that a pronoun replaces a noun (pro + nomen). However, illogically perhaps, in old European grammatical terminology 'possessive adjective' is not used a...

Osee wrote: Hi there, Questions post near the red parts below. Thanks a lot. Osee __ The idea seems reasonable. Recognize better workers with extra pay. But it's not that simple. Performance may be easy to measure in some workplaces. But teachers say a classroom is not one of them. Last...

Thanks, M.M. for your help. I was just consulting my dictionary for it when u replied. But to my great surprise Her has not been mentioned in my dictionary as an adjective, but as a pronoun and determiner. In the later case its function was the same as in adjective. Could you pleas tell me the...

Hi Zhuricki No, the rules haven't changed and there is no difference between British and American English here. 'In search of' is a special idiomatic phrase and means the same thing as 'looking for' or 'seeking'. As is normally the case with idioms, 'in search of' is a fixed grouping of...

the following , not the following s . (There are no plural adjectives in English! ) There is often no difference between the possessive structure ( company's requirement ) and the compound noun structure ( company requirement ). The compound noun is probably more common when the possessor...

Garnett wrote: Goodman, I see what you're saying but still maintain what I said about the different usages was valid. Can I just point out "Porsche" has an "s". "It's" is short for "it is" or "it has". "Its" is a possessive pronoun. Garnett, I don't own a "Porsche" and yes, I missed...

Obviously, depending on where we learned English, it has some bearing on our understanding toward some of the most common debated questions. To validate my own understanding, I did some searching and came to a conclusion, In the US, some experts agree that either singular or plural is...