Hi There seems to be a lot of confusion about conjuncts and other adverbials. Adverbials function in a clause in four different ways: as adjuncts , subjuncts , disjuncts and conjuncts . Each class has a different range of meanings and

I have always been puzzled by the grammatical rules about the tense agreement between the main clauses and the attributive or adverbial clauses. Please justify whether the following sentenses are correct, and if some of them were not correct, I

The following is a paragraph from an old book written many years ago by an English-language professor in China who himself is not a native speaker of English. I have questions about the grammar of one sentence in it and have marked the sentence

Vctory: In the future. please post an essay one time only. Duplicate postings annoy the moderators and confuse the participants. If no one answers your post, you can reply to it, it will bring the post to our attention. Making shorter posts, for

Jameshe: In your first 2 sentences, I cannot make out a main clause with a coherent subject and verb. It is all a jumble of words and phrases. Please improve your paragraph first by writing very simple and short sentences with one subject and

Ordinarily, however, a subject requires subdivision into topics, each of which should be made the subject of a paragraph. This was a sentence written in a grammar book, so I assume this is grammatical, even though I believe it is not.

Hi again, When i read the paragraph again and Mr Philip's answer to my question, i feel 'the' is unnecessary. He said if all the teachers in Jo hn's school, so 'the' is made necessary. Maybe, not all the students

Hi again, When i read the paragraph again and Mr Philip's answer to my question, i feel 'the' is unnecessary. He said if all the teachers in Jo hn's school, so 'the' is made necessary. Maybe, not all the students are

This is Eddie from adidas NZ. We are about to begin a promotional campaign in which we provide mentors our exclusive shoe product range for free, hoping to have them pass on fliers to our target market. To do this, I was hoping you could give me

hi there, I have a question about the following sentence: Royal bank of Scotland was the first bank to sing up , announcing last month that it would ask the government to insure £325bn worth of so-called toxic assets , which are difficult to