Welcome to English Forums! "Good" is an adjective. You need an adverb to modify "draw." It should be, "I still did not draw too well ." "Your" is a possessive pronoun. Your sentence needs

"I have a fear of his getting angry." This is what I was suggesting: I asked why him (a pronoun) couldn't be the object of the preposition (not clause), and that 'getting angry' was a participle phrase modifying him, rather

. Question #: 1: It is very easy . Is the answer incorrect because the word 'very' modifies 'is', and is therefore an adverb, and not 'easy' which is an adjective? -- No. Adverbs modify verbs and adjectives. 'Very'

Hello, I have a few quick questions. First, c an someone please help me understand why the following answers to an online adjective and adverb quiz are incorrect?: Question #: 1: It is very easy. Here, very is an adjective. User's

Yeah, I thought it may have either been modifying the subject (adjectivally) or that it was an adverb phrase. Oh, and one unrelated, simple question.. 'I have a fear of his getting angry.' I have a fear of him getting angry. Is getting a

Hi Clive, I've been ruminating on this, and agree that it is not wrong to place an adverb before a gerund. Adverbs precede verbs all the time. However it seems to me more natural afterward. The reason is because the gerund functions as a noun,

Russian is a highly inflected language, having as I recall, 6 cases with different endings for singlar and plural.Adjectives are similarly inflected. Ah! OK. Then you probably recall the Russian "instrumental case". In English "with

. Poirot deserves his place in crime fiction history . Poirot is proper noun functioning as subject deserves is verb -- OK his-- possessive adjective place is noun -- OK , object of verb in-- is preposition - - OK crime -- noun as adjective

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

this is what I have so far, but I'm not sure where to go from here. Normal 0 A (article) twitch (noun) at (preposition) the (article) controls (noun) could (verb) swerve (verb) the (article) cat’ (noun), but (conjunction) the (article)