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. 1. deep-clean cleaner ... is deep-clean This particular coinage doesn't sound very good in either position. Usually, you can use the same adjective or adjectives either in a pre-noun position or predicatively, but why not for this? -- A number of adjectives rest easily in only one of the...

Hello again, Unfortunately,I've put one part in my previous post wrongly.Sorry for that.It would be correct to use the preposition "toward" in the following part: "But,if the verb indicates motion,or in plain english,if you are :going toward, flying toward, traveling...

Hi SOP SeekerOfPeace wrote: Would I be correct to say that relative clauses: ü modify a noun or a pronoun Correct, but they can also modify a clause: He didn't say anything, which was a surprise. ü Are either defining or non-defining Correct. In the...

Hi Rosalama No answer to your question will please everybody. Many people think no apostrophe should be used in your expressions: in the 1980s The plural genitive is formed by adding an apostrophe after the plural s, so the genitive should be: I don't like the 1980s' music. However, many people...

Hello Hela Sorry, I missed that! You might possibly hear a phrase such as "Asian immigrants' numbers" in terse journalistic reporting; but on the whole, "the number of" isn't "genitivised" in this way. I'm not quite sure why this is, or why phrases such as "the day's time" aren't used...

Paco -- I'm sorry English is so frustrating! A few comments come to mind: First, I can see how it seems to you that the current chaotic state of English is a result of generations of laziness regarding grammatical rules, but I would prefer to think of it this way: the current flexibility of...

Hello MrP Thanks for the reply. I am lucky I get an confirmation directly from a native speaker to that I had better not say "I'm a Japanese", though I feel somewhat like unhappiness in your way of discriminating the suffices "-an" and "-ese". By the way I feel the word "Japaneses" is much...