The driver trook the people who had been waiting for a ride. - Do you find anything wrong in it? But the explanation in the book says, it is wrong. FOR A RIDE refers PEOPLE. But even if FOR A RIDE refers PEOPLE, it is not sentence fragment. The

Here is how I understand the sentence with added words: "I've ordered the bulk of our food stores moved onto the ice and the remaining boats put off." So what do you think? I think the same thing. CJ Thank you CalifJim. So we

If teacher takes care nasty students he's got lot's of problems. "take care of" is a phrasal verb. It is used for babies, dogs (pets), and people who cannot take care of themselves. For example: I have taken care of my mother

Hi, GrammarGeek, are you saying 'no' to my second answer (post) because Avangi says my second post is correct? Thanks. Here is how I now see it: I decided to vote for whoever called me first. -- I decided= main clause (this is a main

No. To vote for is a phrasal verb. It's also what was decided. I suppose that makes the entire part that follows a giant noun phrase that tells you what the object of "decided" is. "Whoever called me first" is the

Do you want a syntactical analysis or corrections to these sentences? Here is some syntax: Down the hillside (prepositional phrase, adverbial) were rolling (main verb phrase) the stones . (noun phrase, subject) In this part (prepositional

What I was meaning with the preposition and objective case query, is that I want to know if the pronoun is still the objective case if it comes before the preposition. No. A preposition governs case only in one direction. The preposition cannot

Here is another example: We listen to Fagin __ and share her tormented feelings. A.talk to Nancy. B. talking to Nancy. I chose A since I thought that would make the sentence parallel, but the answer was B. So is that everytime we see

Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me. I have to analyse the grammar in this sentence: Verterbrates are born looking like small versions of their parents. Are there two clauses? i.e. 1. "Vertebrates are born..." and 2.

Actually, I do classify some infinitive phrases that follow the verbs "seem" and "appear" as subject complements. I'm not totally comfortable with that view, so I like to consider other options. Also, I'm not fluent in