In Nouns^x, Hyphens^x, Clauses^x

Hi N2G It has become more and more fashionable to use hyphens in English and therefore some might put a hyphen between much and needed but I don't think that is necessary. I wouldn't object to one, either. Clearly, the relative clause is a non-defining one and thus a comma is needed,...

I find your sentence very satisfactory. It may be Jane Austenish but there is no law against such language even today. Why should everybody speak and write in exactly the same way in English? People don't do that in many other languages. I see no mistakes in punctuation or hyphens but I know...

1-- It looks like an adjective phrase-- or a very truncated adjective clause (no S and no V): my own school, gasping for air. ... 3-- My rationale was that I felt it made it more immediately clear for the reader that 'question-writing' is a single specific task more specific than just 'writing...

Yes, Mr. M. It helps a lot. It kind of engendered some inquiries, though. 1. In your interview in the English-test.net website, you said: From there, it didn't take much thought to realize that I could eliminate the middle man and start my own school, lucrative enough to make Japan a...

The police arrested him for speeding . "The police" = S "arrested" = V "him" = O "(F)or speeding" is a reason- and an adverbial clause ? In my book, a clause contains a verb or verbs. "(S)peeding " is a gerund, thus is a noun. How is it? Question #2: 1. "(F)or...

"mountain" is a noun, however the wider sentence does not (cannot) treat this word in isolation, or as part of its OWN syntax. It's just like in math, when you say: 1+2*3, you have to parse (2*3) FIRST before you can parse the rest, which then becomes 1+6. If you parse things in the wrong order,...