Dear friend, The judge announced a recess is correct; in it, recess means a period of time when the proceedings of a parliament, committee, court of law, or other official body are temporarily suspended . *I can buy snacks at the school's

The first one is definitely correct. (object of the preposition) I'm not sure about the second one. It presents some interesting problems. While I think it's common to use or not use the possessive of a name in this case, (a friend of

Sentences like "I live with my parents and brother and sister" or while talking about fathers or mothers mentioning them time after time, do we use a definite article or are we supposed to use a possessive pronoun each time? e.g.

I have highlighted words that are incorrect and also offered some suggestions. The letter from a Birmingham jail by Martin Luther King Jr. can gives people a very strong feeling after read it because the king (I don't think this person was a

1 real 1: of or relating to fixed, permanent, or immovable things (as lands or tenements) 2b (2): of or relating to practical or everyday concerns or activities <left school to live in the real world> 1 yellow 1 a: of the color yellow Which

Hi, how can I tell if this is a gerund or a participle? Knowing which verbal this is helps me determine the case of the pronoun: objective or possessive. The indication for my progress in regards to time management comes from my completing tasks

I side with Avangi - This one seems more like a noun than an adjective. Quote from Fowler's - "The King's English" The participle is an adjective, and should be in agreement with a noun or pronoun; the gerund is a noun, of which

"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

<< What's stopping the pronoun being the object of the clause. >> I think this would only work as an appositive, but it would need a comma, and would make no sense contextually. What's stopping the truck, being more than

The head of the phrase is the central element of the phrase, not the first word in the phrase, but I assume you know this. I would not know how to identify such a critter. "Heading the phrase" is a very new concept to me. The only thing