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Re: Which way would you sway?
<I would be interested to see quotations from the early English grammarians that presented spoken English as somehow inferior, or that demonstrated an imposition of inappropriate rules from Latin. > Do you doubt that was the case? If so, I guess you disagree with this: "If they...
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Help with nominative-accusative case.
Although I'm a native English speaker, I've often struggled to understand English grammar, especially its morphosyntatical elements. I've done some reading on nominative-accusative as well as ergative-absolutive cases and I just don't get it. Can someone who's better at linguistics explain...
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From English grammar books, we learn that there are 6 types of basic sentence patterns around which you can expand to add more meaning. One of the patterns involves using a transitive verb with a direct object and an indirect object, both of which are nouns. In another pattern, the indirect...
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Another kind of illegitimate argument is based on analogy between one area of grammar and another. consider yet another construction where there is variation between nominative and accusative forms of pronouns: , where the subject has the form of a coordination of pronouns. This shows us not...
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Re: JTTs point on using I or me.
http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html Probably no "grammatical error" has received as much scorn as "misuse" of pronoun case inside conjunctions (phrases with two parts joined by is an object that requires object case, it does not mean that is an...
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Weaknesses in the CGEL? (Cambridge Grammar of the English Language)
People sometimes refer to the CGEL on this site. Conveniently, some sample chapters from this publication are now online at CGEL sample chapters The preliminary chapter includes the odd lapse of logic. This is one of the first. Apologies for the fairly lengthy quotation: Another kind of...
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Re: Help with English Grammar Exam (
My guesses: (1) 'Queen' is the fifth noun, acting as an adjective; 'guests' is subject of the dependent clause. (2) Subject preceding verb is normal word order in an affirmative statement. (3) 'Answers' is the head-- it is modified by the other words. (4) In ( a ) 'book' is the...
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Help with English Grammar Exam (
I know this is a long post, but I have a final exam about this on Tuesday and I need answers. Any help will be very appreciated, if you don't have time to answer all and just have time to answer one question it will be equally appreciated! Thanks in Advance. 1. What are the 5 noun phrases in...
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What are the rules concerning forming simple, complex, and compound-complex sentences. Please Define; Direct Object, Indirect Object, Objective Pronouns, Perogative Nouns, Perogative Adjectives, and Apositive Pronouns.
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