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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.

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...

1) Where are you? I've been waiting for 2 hours2) I needn't have brought that milkI = subjectneed have bought = verb; present perfect tense, modal form (need is the auxiliary), buy is the main verb, bought is the past participle.not - adverb that - demonstrative pronoun refering to...

That is your seat? Yes, it is. (not correct)The correct pair is: Is that your seat? Yes, it is. or Yes, that is my seat. or No, that one is. This, that, these, and those are demonstrative pronouns. These pronouns refer to specific things. They require a context that indicates the thing or...

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 (pronoun, subject) is (main verb) probably (adverb,...

Sorry abuot this again, I fear I'm becoming somewhat of a pain. But I have to fully get it. From what I gathered, Adjective Prepositional Phrases modifies nouns/pronouns or object of another preposition, eg.: The book on the table in the English classroom is her book. (on the table modifies...

Thanks.  I always get mixed whenever these who/whom pronouns get anywhere near a linking verb that is preceded by an action verb in a sentence.  I can never decided whether the pronoun is in the object case of the action verb (in this case the object of assume, so therefore choose 'whom')...