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Present participles is just the ing form of the ver. And participles are part of verbals. In the english Language there are three verbals. The gerunds, the infinitives and the PARTICIPLES. THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF PARTICIPLES 1. PAST PARTICIPLES AND 2. PRESENT PARTISIPLES THE PAST PARTICIPLE ENDS...

Immediate constituent analysis (ICA) is a theory of grammar that use sentences as made up of layers of constituents. Example: He put the book on the table. First two immediate constituents are (He = Noun phrase) and (put the book on the table = Verb Phrase)

Let me approach this in another way as well, starting from the grammar of and . and has to connect things that serve the same function -- two nouns, two adjectives, two prepositional phrases, two verbs, and so on. In this example: It is succinct and thus (is) very effective. and joins two...

. Both you and your father need to brush up your grammar. I feel happy. Feel is a copular verb here (like 'be') and takes an adjective complement ('happy'). Other copulars: This soup tastes good. You look great! That song sounds sad. .

Hi, Eddie, thanks for catching my "it's." I make that error about 60% of the time and catch it on re-read about 90% of the time. I think A. Stars answered you well on "That is he." There are two issues: the grammar issue, and the usage issue. Re the grammar, there are...

I have always heard in conversation - that must be him / her on the phone. Of course we say:He is on the phone now. Grammatically, "that must be him" it is not strictly correct, since the case of a pronoun after "be" is nominative. However, in this case (must be ***), we...

Hi A: I've had a hard decision on this too. Many grammar references I have read insist that present and past participles can only work as adjectives, for example http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrases.htm#participle Present participles, verbals ending in -ing , and past...

I have never come across PO as a term in grammar. PO is the usual abbreviation of Post Office. It may be a jargon acronym used just by your teacher. Perhaps it refers to Pronoun objects. i.e. some pronouns have a different form when they are objects of verbs to when they are subjects. e.g. 'I...

Thank you so much Grammar Geek. So the term "idiot-savant" is used as a verb here, otherwise its normal use is a "noun". Here is the context, and if you would be kind enough to help point out what "these" refers to, I'd appreciate it. "Over in a corner...

In a literal sense, I CAN NOT think of a case where "all" does NOT mean "everything". But grammatically, when the word "all" refers to countable nouns, it should be followed by a plural form of verb. Right? I am just puzzled by the choice of "all IS well"....