By Possessives, Past tenses

Lin1978 wrote:Thank you, Master Yankee. Your answer is quite clear. But I still have one small question. Last time my teacher told me that, "if I have two different subjects in a main clause and in a conditional, and I want to use the participle phrase, I have to keep both two subjects or change...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the...

Sometimes has sounds natural contracted and other times it doesn't. We can contract it when it is the past tense - she's just gone to the shop, she's eaten all her dinner, she's dropped them. We can't contract it when it the possessive have - She has white teeth not she's white teeth. She has a...

Hello K.O. That looks good - here's a little more detail: Clause 1 We - subject were spared - passive voice, past tense the storm's fury - noun phrase, object (the storm's - possessive; fury - direct object) Clause 2 but - coordinating conjunction now - adverb are having - modal verb,...

Say the right words in the right order. Make subjects and verbs agree in number. Use the correct case for all pronouns. Add "ed" to form the past tense. Add "s" to form plurals. Add "'s" to form possessives. Invert subject and verb in a question. Don't use a countable singular noun without an...

didn't say 'rules', Sharad-- I said 'usages'. They don't all work. As far as your examples are concerned: 'Today's morning meeting was very intense.' This is fine; it means 'the morning meeting today'. Today morning's meeting was very intense. No-- 'today morning' is not natural, so the...

rommie? Got a theory? hehe Sure thing. Consider the sentence: "I had him eating spinach". Does that make sense to you? It makes sense to me. It means (1) "he was eating spinach", and (2) "I caused this to happen". The phrase "him eating spinach" is a gerund - quite a complicated gerund as it...