By Predicates, Constructions

information. Here is another example of the same construction: 1) Her greatest pleasure is travelling. (It doesn't mean that we have a travelling pleasure but that travelling is her pleasure.) 2) Her greatest pleasure is to travel. (To travel is her pleasure.)

.A complete predicate is all of the sentence except for the subject.An appositive is 'an expression that has 'the same function and the same relation to other elements in the sentence , the second expression identifying or supplementing the first. In Washington, our first president, the...

In response to the questions posed in the first post of this thread, "the officer" is NOT the subject of the sentence regardless of whether the sentence is active or passive. "The officer" is undoubtedly the doer of the action in both sentences, but it is the subject only in...

The uses of be are numerous, Sunilghai:–verb (used without object) 1.to exist or live: Shakespeare's “To be or not to be” is the ultimate question. 2.to take place; happen; occur: The wedding was last week. 3.to occupy a place or position: The book is on the table. 4.to continue...

In similar constructions, I think it helps make it clear that "I heard" and " thought" is the intended meaning, rather than "you were... and thought" But in this case, "you thought that you might sent..." doesn't make sense, so it's clear that it's I heard and I thought.

Your questions reveal the limitations of the traditional technical vocabulary for discussing grammatical structures! You can think of infinitives as a direct objects of the verb want. On the other hand, want takes a clause as its complement. I want (He helps us). But the complement...

Mister Micawber wrote:Future Simple (I will sit)Future Continuous/Progressive (I will be sitting)Future Perfect (I will have sat")Present Simple (I sit)Past Simple (I sat)Past Continuous/Progressive (I was sitting)Past Perfect (I had sat)Past Perfect Continuous/Progressive (I had been...

Future Simple (I will sit)Future Continuous/Progressive (I will be sitting)Future Perfect (I will have sat")Present Simple (I sit)Past Simple (I sat)Past Continuous/Progressive (I was sitting)Past Perfect (I had sat)Past Perfect Continuous/Progressive (I had been sitting)Any I've missed? -- See...

Thanks Mister Micawber.Can you help me with tense names for english please:I've had a stab at it:Future Perfect (I will sit)Future Imperfect (I will be sitting)Future Historic (I will have sat")Present (I sit)Perfect(I sat)Imperfect (I was sitting)Pluperfect (I had sat"? (I had been sitting)Any...

Saw this in a text: "What I lack is words..." Sounded immediately odd to my ear. Although I realize the predicate is ambiguous here, i.e.: "THAT WHICH I LACK is X " However, this sounds natural: "Words ARE what I lack." And it shouldn't be the case that word order affects...