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Conjunctive adverbs, or simply "conjuncts", do exist, and are different from sentence adverbials.These conjuncts link sentences or paragraphs and usually appear at the beginning of a sentence. The adverbials Anonymous mentioned in their first post, those that tell us something...

Hi, I moved to Singapore and got a teaching position at a small college. This is a simple sentence. It is easy to see, however, why someone might think that this is a compound sentence, since it contains the co-ordinating conjunction "and"; however, the conjunction actually joins two predicates...

Hi, I moved to Singapore and got a teaching position at a small college. This is a simple sentence. It is easy to see, however, why someone might think that this is a compound sentence, since it contains the co-ordinating conjunction "and"; however, the conjunction actually joins two predicates...

I moved to Singapore and got a teaching position at a small college. Oh my Gosh! This is a simple sentence. It is easy to see, however, why someone might think that this is a compound sentence, since it contains the co-ordinating conjunction "and"; however, the...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: Hello I saw this syntax in a dictionary. "The predicate is (that functions as one of the two main constituents of a simple sentence), the other being the subject, and (that consists of a verb, which in English may agree with the subject in number,)" Even so, even...

curious why the difference in comma usage exists between introductory prepositional phrases and other introductory elements. I don't know precisely why, but my educated guess is that verb phrases are the main driving force behind the majority of the comma rules. When a subordinate clause...

Hi, The brown layer. . . disrupts the . . . elements and . . . mediates the picture, giving it that holistic energy of nature that is inherit to earth. I am not sure why you dismiss the group of words in blue as not being a clause. According to the grammars I have reviewed, a group of...

What is the word sucks in "Homework sucks"? Is it a verb or an adjective? If it is a verb, what does homework suck?This brings up an excellent point, and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English language. The question at hand is "Does an English verb...

Jack112 wrote: Sorry for my lack of understanding. Could you give me a few more examples as to how to distinguish between them? 1. I have never had more girlfriends than I have now. (Correct) 2. I have never had more girlfriends than I do now. (Is this one correct as well? How do I...

A sentence may take the form of a single clause or be formed from several clauses. The typical clause has a noun phrase for a subject and a verb phrase for a predicate. The verb phrase may have another noun phrase or two embedded within it which serves as direct object or indirect object. ...