Clive, i still do not understand. ..to help Jacob deal with his illnees Is Jacob deal is a noun, or Jacob deal is Subjecc + predicate

I was taught that prepositional phrases were essentially "expendable" components of a sentence that, while referring to the subject-predicate, are 'not really there.' In the context of the following sentence the author uses a

Hi, Eddie, thanks for catching my "it's." I make that error about 60% of the time and catch it on re-read about 90% of the time. I think A. Stars answered you well on "That is he." There are two issues: the grammar issue,

Are there any rules in English grammar related to need to repeat or not to repeat a subject when there are multiple predicates in the sentence? Here is the example that came up in a discussion today: " I suggest hiking then and I volunteer to

Consider this common construction:  She ran to the end of the field and never looked back. Or you might find this punctuation: She ran to the end of the field, and never looked back. I think the second is more common, but the first more correct.

. Hello Bino, there should always be some kind of punctuation mark between coordinate clauses. This is generally right... but yours are not coordinate clauses, because the second has no subject, and we cannot punctuate once (though we can do so

Hello Huevos, I regret to tell you that I should follow the subject-inversion in “Guide to Grammar and Writing” which allows the underlined part as a predicate instead of a subject suggested by you:

OK, grammar geek, forget about the word british, i don't like it either :-) It is a matter of formality, not the whole of it, in europe we consider grammatical to say It's Brad or I. It's Brad or me is OK too, just talking as a user.

You have made some very complex sentences, so it is not easy to explain without a lot of detail. Here is my analysis of the grammar in the second sentence. I am not an expert in grammar, so I invite other members of the forum to comment. It

predicate adjectives This is a function, not a part of speech. That is, there is no such thing as a part of speech called a "predicate adjective". Most of your examples are nouns functioning as adjectives within a compound noun