By Possessives, Subjunctives

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use, while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen (who will find most of this section superfluous), is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it; and for them the section is in danger of being...

1. Please tell me how can a person make the right decision when confronted those ajectives with a plural 's' ending? do phonics teaching obtained a first-class honors degree -- For this, I think it need (subjunctive OK since the context allude to the notion that this is sort of a recommendation...

CalifJim wrote:If a student points to some construction and asks me if it's the subjunctive or not, I can't reply, 'No, it's a monkey!'Now there you are wrong! You are the teacher and can say any dang thing you want! In fact a smart retort like that might go a long way toward making your...

If a student points to some construction and asks me if it's the subjunctive or not, I can't reply, 'No, it's a monkey!' Now there you are wrong! You are the teacher and can say any dang thing you want! In fact a smart retort like that might go a long way toward making your students realize...

I'm not sure whether the 'possessive + gerund' structure was preferred by English teachers, when native grammar was taught to the natives. I suspect that it was, if only because Fowler devotes so much space to it. But I would guess that most of those who produce written BrE for public consumption...

Andrei, In the sentence you're asking about, "his" is a possessive pronoun, not a possessive adjective. That makes a difference. In "This is my book", 'my' is a possessive adjective, it precedes the noun it modifies (books). In "This book is mine", 'mine' is a possessive pronoun, it replaces the...