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CJ: In the "classical" grammar I learned soon after the emergence of modern English , "making workers feel undervalued" would be analyzed as a participial phrase. Most of the English grammar reference web sites I have used still keep to the "classical" grammar...

In (1) through (3) the noun remains singular. In (4), we omit both a noun and an article. It seems to be difficult to mentally supply both, and this has the effect of turning 'first and second' into a plural modifier. The phrase is then analogous to 'the two boys'. The...

Dear MM, I sincerely appreciate your great explanation (The answer probably can't be found elsewhere. Not to mention the Grammar books). Some online dictionaries stated that the inflected forms of both the adjective and adverb of "heavy" are the same that confuse me. ...

(Yay, I got the quote thing down!) Thanks for your time Avangi, I truly appreciate it. But I must say I'm just about as depressed as can be :(, because now I'm think I, as someone learning English as a 2nd language, am.....(pardon my languaged here) screwed. I don't thik I...

Hi, I need help with this grammar point. I was preparing myself for an English Grammar test, the material I'm studying to prepare for the test says that there are 7 words, namely 3 articles (a, an, the) and 4 possessive pronouns (my, our, your, their), are always "adjectives"....

Hi CB, thanks so much for your reply(i was the one who asked about the differences between verbal nouns and gerunds). i agree that there seems to be discrepancies between one grammarians usage and another's. I certainly like your definition of gerunds, in so far as they are unable to take the...

hi, i've been struggling with coming to grips with the differences between verbal nouns and gerunds. e.g. John's singing the national anthem bothered me. or John's singing of the national anthem bothered me. which is correct, and in the second case is 'singing' a gerund or...

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...

Hi, Can you help me please ? Which one is correct? And why? -- Where is my wallet? Where is the police station? OR Where my wallet is? Where the police station is? English grammar requires the inversion shown in #1 and #2. However, note that you can say things like I know where my wallet...

Example Sentence : I want a mango, pineapple, and strawberry. I believe in the above sentence article a is associated with all the nouns, mango , pineapple , and strawberry. And same is the case with your sentence where article the only comes before dog but it is associated with both dog and...