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Congratulations on your hard work. - A.Edit. "Why is the article "the" essential here?"

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, and the usage issue.Re the grammar, there are...

Sorry, I took "in line 4 of this writing piece" as a colloquialism, "in line 4 of a certain writing piece." I thought it was weird.

Usage Note: English speakers have used well both as an adjective and as an adverb since Old English times. When applied to people, the adjective well usually refers to a state of health. Like similar adjectives, such as ill and faint, well in this use is normally restricted to the predicate, as...

Thanks, AlpheccaStars. But the original (from an English magazine) omits "being," so I wonder whether it's better to have "being" or not. Btw, are there any differences between "he would end up stuck ..." and "he would be stuck ...?"

The correct form is "being stuck".The reason is that the phrasal verb "end up" needs a noun for a direct object.. "being" is a gerund, which is used as a noun. Examples from the dictionary are:He thought he'd end up living in the city. He ended up marrying his...

Welcome to English Forums.It's an imperative sentence, the subject being (you) understood."Give" is a verb, present tense, second person singular or plural, the simple predicate of the sentence."yearbook" is a noun, the direct object of the verb."whoever" is a...

Hello.I'm in 8th grade and am homeschooled. In my English class, I have recently been learning about diagraming subjects, appositives, direct objects, object of prepostitions, and predicate nominatives.It would be easy, if I was still understanding the major parts. So I've been doing some...

The verb is "am". It can be followed by a predicate noun, predicate adjective, or the -ing form of a verb. If you see an "ing" ending, that is the clue that there is another verb!I am playing. (play = verb) I am happy. (happy = adjective)I am tired. (tired = adjective) I am a...

ANon:What you have here is a sentence with two main clauses. It has 2 subjects (John, he) and 2 verbs (faced, remained).The 2 clauses are joined by the conjunction "but"Here are examples of predicate nouns: John is a manager. The predicate noun is "manager". Mary used to be...