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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...

Usually we use 'who' to refer to persons, however, 'that' is also acceptable. I really like the www.dictionary.com for its explanations. Here is a clip from "that": —Usage note 4 . When that introduces a relative clause, the clause is usually restrictive; that...

Sincere thanks to Gori for bringing up the term "dangling participal" and Star for giving a great explanation, I'm learning a lot. I finished learning grammar (whatever grammar rules were presented in the book I was asked to study) a little while ago, so most of the rules are...

1. Would say this is natural in terms of grammar. I think I asked a similar question before and I think Mr. M said something like the construction like "a yellow and red pen" first brings up a notion of one pen with two different colors. They are divided over a spiritual and literal...

This is an example of a grammar issue that is made difficult because frequent usage of the "a lot" construction in informal conversation makes it tricky to say what is correct based on how it "sounds." Whether the nouns are countable/uncountable or singular/plural is beside...

See, this the weird thing. While that last sentence doesn't sound right, this one does: Are these the pens you're looking for? Thanks, but no, those aren't the ones I'm looking for.

Well, see this thread elsewhere: Noun modifiers http://thegrammarexchange.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/340600179/m/4121029663?r=5611057863#5611057863 where it is mentioned that: -- …However, the plural attributive construction is on the increase , particularly in BrE where it is more...

1. He'd only left her a note on the bedside table of which she had not understood the content. 2. The car in the driveway which has a convertible roof is my new Ferrari. Both sentences share a similar construction where 'which describes the noun before the immediate noun but the first...

Newcomer, I see that you are confused with the participle usage. I'll try to give it my best shot to explain to you what I've understood about participles. "what is the man who does up there " (sounds incorrect) *asking what the man is doing* literally ( doing as verb ) => ...

If this sentence originated in the U.S., then failure to make the number (that is, the singularity or plurality) of the pronoun (in this case "their") match the number of the noun (in this case ''seller") is the result of what is termed "political correctness."...