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Let's take this one step at a time: We listen to Fagin. --> This is a complete sentence (main clause); "listen to" is the phrasal verb, and Fagin is the object. But could Fagin be doing? talking, screaming, yelling, running, and so on. For example: Fagin's loud talking...

I don't know what I'd call it. Not an essay, there's no arguement techinically, just an opinion. I wrote it as a practice in writing racticing rather than voicing an opinion, although every bit of it is genuin. I had trouble deciding on the name for the subject matter, but this name,...

Subjunctive is used when the action is not REAL or PREFFERED. And it's rarely used in contemporary English, in idiomatic expression or in more formal speech. Relative clause (Subordinate Clause, Adjectival Clause ) is used when you want to give more information about event or person or thing...

16: is known as (passive structure; active form: We know Boston as the Hub...) 17. storing, erasing and retrieving (These are parallel and should be in the same form.) 18. Professor Andom Iyassou ("Professor" is a title. If Andom Iyassou is one person, "professor" must be...

. A complete predicate is all of the sentence except for the subject. An appositive is ' an expression that has 'the same function and the same relation to other elements in the sentence , the second expression identifying or supplementing the first. In Washington, our first president,...

Hi Clive, I see 'all' as a noun, and '(that) there is to know' as an adjectival clause describing 'all'. Yours makes more sense, especially where you point out the missing (implied) "that." Thanks a lot. Armstrong

Hi guys, "You will not learn all there is to know about OOP in 21 days--that's simply not possible." I'd like to offer a different analysis. I see 'all' as a noun, and '( that) there is to know' as an adjectival clause describing 'all'. Best...

1. Do not place a phrase or clause: A. in a sentence. B. at the beginning of a sentence. C. at the end of a sentence. D. too far from the word it is meant to modify. Answer D. 2. In every sentence, the subject must agree with the: A. object of the preposition. B. verb. C. intervening...

Hi, everyone! Happy New Year! But I'm trying to be happy. I'm pulled into a debate over "the very English standard" in a Chinese translation forum. A "sensible" lad who crammed in China's New Oriental Language School asserts that many usages, including those in nytimes.com, economist.com,...

Hi Teleostomi I suggest you forget all about Google. Since there are millions of German people, Australian people etc., you don't need the article when you refer to them all in a general sense: German people are said to be hard-working. (I would prefer: German s are said... ) If the reference is...