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Dear BBG - Please try to be careful when you write. If you don't think carefully about every word you write, you will not learn why you make mistakes. Think about tenses - present, past, future. Think about plurals - is this one, or more than one? If it is more than one, add an 's'....

Thank you both for shedding some light on this!"The key word is 'most'."I suspected as much. What if the sentence is modified by an adverb?"Sometimes, the cats have a collar.""Usually, the cats have a collar.""Often, the cats have a...

First, let me call your attention to CB's correction. "Very" is an adverb, not an adjective, and it probably always was. "Most" is an adjective when it modifies a noun (Most people can swim.), but in the two quite different usages we've been talking about here,...

Neither is correct. People is plural, so: fewer people go online. You can have an adjective after less: It was less interesting than I thought. A noun in the singular is also possible: I have less money than you. So is an adverb: He played less carefully than expected.Only a noun is possible...

Hi Mad, With this scant context, it could be taken either way. It's pretty confusing. "Friends" is plural. Was she paired with one particular guy? Whom is she talking to? Her date?? "Felt" is past tense, but "is" is present tense. Is she still on the date...

According to Merriam-Webster Unabridged, possible can be a noun, adjective and adverb: -- possible Function: noun 1 a : POSSIBILITY, POTENTIALITY -- usually used in plural <all the infinite number of possibles -- Jonathan Edwards> b : all that can be done : BEST <had done my...

Hello Anonymous,In your sentences there is no adjective phrases.A phrase is a name used in the english grammar to label a group of words which acts as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence,which means that you need at least two words to label some part of the sentence a phrase. Words,phrases...

Hi everyoneI just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far:Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as...

Hi, A human can't exist without food or water for long. OK A human can't exist without food or water long. Sounds a little bit awkward to me A human can't exist long without food or water. OK Do all of the above sound right? Which is most idiomatic to you? We more often speak...

May I use the 'ING' form with any verb to create adjectives or nouns? No. The adjective 'Telephonic' has it an adverb to be 'Telephonically'? Yes. When I can use 'The', 'a', 'an' before nouns? An extremely broad question. A and an are usually not...