"Sydney is the most beautiful city in the world and there is a great ability to get on with people." 1. Which part of speech is "to"? It's the infinitival particle. The full infinitive of the verb is to get (on with). 2. Is

Hi, I think " the light " is the noun you're looking for. "Lets in the light" = "lets the light in" = "allows the light to enter the room" ( "let in " is a phrasal verb, whose meaning can be

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

W hat is a separable phrasal verb? Have you tried to look it up , Anon? The phrasal verb "look up" is separable. That means that a noun or a pronoun can be inserted between the verb (look) and the particle (up). For additional

Hi there, I decided to put this here in the linguistic section because it seems like a strange and very complicated subject to discuss. I am going to improve my vocabulary in a systematic way (finally!), using a technique I don't feel like

I don't know much about phrasal verbs (they hadn't yet been invented when I was in school), but I take "graduated" as a simple verb in the simple past tense, and "with first-class honors" as a prepositional phrase,

Hi, Is the syntax below OK? He (subject) graduated with (phrasal verb) first-class honors (Noun) from Hong Kong University (prepositional phrase) in the 1960s (prepositional phrase).

Yes, "whoever called me first" should have whoever in the nominiative as you have it.(That noun phrase (whoever called me first) is the object of the preposition/phrasal verb "vote for.") There is a long thread on here

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