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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...

Hi Everbody: I'll leave this discussion in your capable hands and offer you all some further reading and viewing for your pleasure Here are some links on participial phrases : www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNzKX-my5C0 (video) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OMHyyD6TsY&feature=related (video) ...

I have taught English as a Second language to new learners. The question/answer pair "What is this?" / "This is a ..."  is lesson 2 (after introductions "Hello, my name is...", "What's your name?") t teaches students how to ask for vocabulary words. ...

much is used with singular nouns. much butter, much water, not much information, not much hope, Much of it is ... many is used with plural nouns. many cars, many letters, not many horses, not many details, Many of them are ... There is no particular reason behind the usage. It's just...

Thanks CJ " Serious grammatical error " is my paraphrase. But when and if ESL students start to expressly state "this IS an exceptional usage", I suppose that means "these is a set rule on this and no one can break that in any shape or form". " the...

Maria is my friend. Maria is the subject. my friend is the predicate nominative. My faith and my morning coffee are my salvation. My faith and my morning coffee is the subject. my salvation is the predicate nominative. The verb agrees with the subject. Five dollars is not a...

First,. let me say that I agree usage-wise Nona and you. I also think that the mother-example is a good one - but it's not a perfect one. It's a good one, because it demonstrates the difference between the time of action and the time of speaking. Noun references are routinely rooted...

You need 4. get the car to start / try filling the engine ... You're using try within a suggestion , so the -ing form is the best choice. Both 2 and 4 have filling , but you can't use 2 because the grammar of get is that you need get . Infinitives have the base form of the verb with...

Anonymous wrote: I'd really appreciate your reply to my first letter. But in the sentence: "The news that he won surprised us all." that he won- is the noun clause;according to one of the website on the Internet. In the sentence "The fact that the earth is round is obvious." that the earth is...

Dear Ms I'd really appreciate your reply to my first letter. But in the sentence: "The news that he won surprised us all." that he won- is the noun clause;according to one of the website on the Internet. In the sentence "The fact that the earth is round is obvious." that the earth is round'-is a...