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Hi Ticce It would be better to omit the word 'all': " She is always smiling. " That is the present continuous tense of the verb 'smile'. In your original sentence, the word 'smiles' was used as a noun (and as GG mentioned, ' be all smiles ' is an idiom).

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"...

Yankee wrote: Hi Goodman You can look at "to welcome someone with open arms" as an idiom. This idiom contains the verb 'welcome'. Simple past tense, active voice: They welcome d him with open arms. Simple past tense, passive voive: He was welcome d with open arms (by them). 'Welcome...

Hi Goodman You can look at "to welcome someone with open arms" as an idiom. This idiom contains the verb 'welcome'. Simple past tense, active voice: They welcome d him with open arms. Simple past tense, passive voive: He was welcome d with open arms (by them). 'Welcome d ' is a past participle...

The explanation is long and complex - below is a quick , simple and not very well laid out explanation The problem here arises because the infinitive is said (by those who studied Latin at school and those who believe their teachers who were told by those who studied Latin at school) to be "...

Englishuser wrote: A non-native speaker who has immersed himself or herself with highbrow literature written in a foreign language could very well have a more vivid vocabulary and a better knowledge of the grammar of the language than the average native speaker. At least as far as the 'standard...

Hey, you forgot about all the other things "do" could stand for, like: do. abbreviation for ditto. .do abbreviation: Dominican Republic (in Internet addresses). n. Music The first tone of the diatonic scale in solfeggio. n. Slang pl. dos A hairdo. v. did, (dd)...

For the ordinary, simple "to have": British: have some ..., haven't any ... American: have some ..., don't have any ... For the ordinary, simple "to get". British principle parts: "get, got, got American principle parts: "get got, gotten For the idiom "have got", used as a substitute...