By Phrasal verbs, Nouns

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 Chinese, but I think that there is an important...

Hi teachersa/Would you kindly help me understand the phrasal verb"roll out" and its noun " roll out"in the below sentences?We are organizing a workshop in Singapore on Performance management and we plan to roll it out to your location per below plan.b/we are starting our roll...

Hi AvangiSure poetry is OK, but the "Not only" sentence in question doesn't seem to have been intended to be either poetic or particularly formal.The thing is, pronouns sometimes have "restrictions" that nouns simply don't have. Just think about phrasal verbs. For...

Hi Milla,You could also say "Bryan is going to pick Paul up at the airport tonight" because "pick up" is a separable phrasal verb; this means that you can put the object either before or after "up".If the object is a pronoun, this must go before "up", so:...

Hi, In the book named "Longman English Grammar" by L. G. Alexander in the section 8 named "Prepositions, Adverb particles, and Phrasal verbs," I saw this sentence. What does 'case' mean to you? English uses more prepositions than most other European languages, partly...

Whew! Go easy on the colors!There are no phrasal verbs here. It doesn't need forms the main clause.need governs infinitives, so an infinitive follows (to be).be can act as a linking verb to a noun or adjective, so an adjective can follow. (open) be can also govern past participles of...

Hi, I know that many people use this type of sentence " I team up with a boy doing 5 subjects" (participle) And " I team up with a boy who does 5 subjects"(relative pronoun) Yes. You can also say 'I team up with a boy who is doing 5 subjects. But Can one say? : "I...

.There must be some way to alert non-native speakers that native teachers of English and trained ESLs generally know what they are talking about.Did you read this thread, Anon? Do we really have to waste our energies repeating ourselves over and over?Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Sometimes I...

A review:It's a one-syllable wordI think of it primarily as a verb, but it is an abstract noun as well.It's an ergative verb - like bake. I baked a cake, the cake baked in the oven. (But it's not bake!)It forms a phrasal verb with "up" If it is done at home, it does happen...

It is a one-syllable word, without a prefix.It can be part of a phrasal verb. Good question! I know of one with "up" - that has an idiomatic meaning.Maple, how I WISH I could get massages at work! :) (Barber is a nice concrete noun though.)