The for-to-Infinitive Construction "is a construction in which the infinitive is in predicate relation to a noun or a pronoun preceded by the preposition for," L. A. Kaushanskaya (1970:200) In the sentence the for-to-Infinitive Construction can

Clause: a construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.

Hello, Specter. In your sentence "Working for him doesn't interest me," "working for him" is the subject and the rest is the predicate. The subject happens to be a gerundive (or gerundial, as some call

While "I feel fine" is not transitive, both to impel and to compel surely are, and may be used in the passive voice, "I am impelled/compelled to speak." The question is, can "to feel compelled" function like "to

1. Yes, the difference between a complex noun phrase and a simple one is that the complex noun phrase will contain at least one dependent clause. 2. That's one of the ways of identifying noun clauses. It isn't always east, though, as you

What you call your "attempt" is almost perfect, Eddie. You're good at grammar! One minor correction I'd made would be the category acting as subject: it is a clause, not a phrase. It has a verb (even if not a finite form) and it

Hello, Eddie. Sorry about yesterday. I typed a long answer to your question about the noun clause, but when I hit "post" I was taken to a page that told me to come back later, because the forums were down -sort of- due to maintenance. I

either "learners of the English language," or "English language learners." Why is article the essential here? There is only one English language. e.g. I'm learning Chinese language these days. Is there any need to specify

It is a complicated sentence. President-elect Barack Obama -noun has begun an effort to tamp down - predicate what his aides fear are unusually high expectations among his supporters - object. What he is tamping down are

Hi sd15, Welcome to the English Forums.  I'm afraid all our gurus have gone home for the night. I agree there's no grammatical justification for the comma, and I agree that you have a compound predicate. I'd take the comma as an