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Good answer, Teri! May I add a couple of things that you overlooked? First Paragraph, Sentence #1: This sentence needs the verb "is" -- "Do you feel that your life is boring?" In sentence #3, "everyday" is one word only when used as an adjective ("an everyday...

I have a feeling you and I are going to flunk AP English. I think A. Stars had good answers for the two previous questions - the phrasal verb explanation: "for" is no longer analyzed as a preposition, but as part of a phrasal verb, which is transitive. ("What kind of a verb is ...

" Between " is a preposition . Pronouns that follow prepositions are always in the accusative case, not nominative. It's a rule, not a matter of opinion. Here are some examples that wrongly use the nominative. He wrote a book about she. The girl passed between he and I. The...

Language is constantly changing - especially English. Grammarians disagree constantly, as Huevos has said. Consider the expression, "Between you and me. . . . " Both pronouns function as object of the preposition. Little kids sometimes say, "Me and him went to the movies."...

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...

of ... is a preposition and is generally placed before a noun eg. she is part OF a group. ( a group. the noun preceded by it's preposition) could ... is an adverb which describes the verb eg. she COULD be part OF the group ... (COULD describes the verb TO BE) It follows from the above that...

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...

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You are right, Forbes, we have had this discussion before! Maybe we can introduce some new angles to it. I repeat that I have never said English is easier than other languages. I have said that its grammar and syntax are easy. "What have you locked the book I was being read to out of up...

Hello Kooyeen, First,thank you very much for your answer . In the meantime I've got the answer on part 1 of my post .It is a question of a preposition at the end of a question.I understand that if ,for example, I ask : Where are you going to? - "where" is a pronoun since it can be replaced...