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. To vast a question, d_say-- and the sentences are already in English! DOWN: –adverb 1. from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder. 2. on or to the ground, floor, or bottom: He fell down. 3. to or in...

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Sorry; I misspoke in my earlier post. Take care of is not a phrasal verb, it is just a verb phrase, a verbal idiom. Phrasal verbs consist of a verb + particle (adverb, preposition) which behave as a syntactic unit Make up (= invent) is a phrasal verb, and cannot take an internal adverb: Make...

Jackson6612 wrote: Hi G.G. 1: What do you mean by '' I'm assuming you mean immediately after...'' ? In answering your question, I made the assumption that you wanted to know about adjectives that came immedately after the nouns they modify, not predicate adjectives. In "He is happy"...

A Google search of "the absolute best…" and "the absolute worst…" certainly shows their use to be pervasive. So much so that I believe a poll would show their use to be far more pervasive than "the absolutely best…" and "the absolutely worst…." Does this make the former right? Actually, if their...

Hi IK Inchoateknowledge wrote: I have an idea: fall flat is an idiom like throw open in I threw open the windows. I don't think so... (I don't know.) His jokes fell flat . We are flying direct . I think this "flat" in the first sentence is an adjective, and a subject complement....

Grammar Geek wrote: So "to lay by" is a phrasal verb meaning "to store away"? New vocabulary for me! But anyway, when you have a phrasal verb like that (or like "look up" (as a word in a dictionary) or "write down") - do the prepositions act like normal prepositions, or because they are...

Hello everybody, If I understand well, I can always use "slowly" instead of "slow." Am I right? An Introduction To English Grammar wrote: Some words can have the same form for both the adjectives and the adverbs: easily, fast, hard, late, slow, quick, long, and words in...

MountainHiker, All the so-called "circumstantial" bits of a sentence are the adverbial parts. Circumstances of an event or action can be place, time, manner, reason, purpose, and so on. It doesn't matter whether a word is normally a noun or a verb or an adverb or whatever. It is its...