By Nouns, Infinitive clauses

Hello, Twinkletoes.No, that's not what I'm saying. "things to do" is the direct object of "have", the main verb of the sentence. "To do" would be a clause (a non-finite one) even if "things" weren't there or if it had some other type of...

Hello everybody,Taka, I must admit that I don't feel any adjectival flavor in that clause,only adverbial flavor.The clause: "to alter or emphasize what we say and do" is an adverbial(purpose)clause. In the sentence:I learned a good way to ensure the absence of typing mistakes.the...

Dear everybody! I am a Cambodian student in year two; I would like you to explain me about these: 1/ Please differentiate about: - Infinitive clause and infinitive phrase - Participle clause and infinitive phrase -Gerund clause and gerund phrase 2/ Would you tell what does infinitive...

--------- infinitive clause: a type of non-finite clause, with the verb in the infinitive. Infinitive clauses may or may not contain the infinitive marker to. A subject may or may not be present; the subject of an infinitive clause may be realized as a noun phrase or as a prepositional...

As per your request, the following is an attempt to determine the word class & clause type of your sentence (1): S: He Vi: ran, turn Vt: empty Vd: Vf: Vc: Full infinitive: to see Bare infinitive: turn, empty Verb, sense: see Preposition: onto; of; in; to Article, definite:...

As an adverb, enough follows the adjective: This case is big enough to hold everything. (not enough big). However, as a determiner, enough can go either before or after its noun: Here are cases enough to hold everything / Here are enough cases to hold everything.This leaves us with the problem...

I understand what you wish to do now, Rajan, but I do not see each of these as two sentences joined at all; they are just different ways of expressing one sentence (i.e. one idea): 1) possessive case = These types of nouns are in the possessive case. Someone said this. The third...

This message is my monologue. I would not speak to anyone. It's just my monologue.I think it's not wise to relate "complement" to certain parts of speech, i.e., nouns and adjectives. Take a construction of "He seems". It takes various forms of speech. Paco seems . …. as-if clause.As...

Hello GuysThought Professor KM's replies are superb, I'd like to add two things. (1) I answered to MaX as above because MaX asked why it is a gerund. However, I think we might say also "He welcomed their commitment to improve skills". In this case we can parse it as "He welcomed (their...

deleted by an obligatory deletion transform. Will this work on the clutter in my living room? Don't we all wish!!! LOL Part of the problem, as Paco has aptly observed, is the problem of finding the missing (deleted) subject of a dependent clause, the infinitive clause "to be ... cleverer...