In English it has been argued to belong to 2 different catgories such as preposition and complementizer. - according to another view, the complementizer in these sentences is to , and, personally, I favour this opinion: For him to resign would

Accoding to you, there is no such thing as "adverbial phrase". BUT, yes, there is. I've provided 2 links below for your reference. Perhaps, this may help you clear the confusion.

#1-- I suppose that you could include it in the catenatives, but that's not saying much: catenatives are most any verb that governs another verb. Quirk et al. call it a 'marginal modal' or an 'auxiliary of tense and aspect'. #2-- The 'to', I

Hello, I appreciate some of your writing, I especially like your ability to use adjectives to bring your nouns to life! There are a couple of things I would like to point out. Last night, I ran into a dog family. I'm unsure what "dog

Hi. What is the difference? Your sentence: #1 After having read the recipe, she baked a cake. And this: #2 Having read the recipe, she baked a cake In sentence #1, having read the recipe is a gerund phrase (grammatically a

In the example that "CJ" gave, what is(what are) the grammar reason(reasons) that "Having" is used as a noun - ie, how can one discern that it is used as a noun in this sentence as opposed to a participle? Hi Philip: The verb

I am looking at this from this angle: He -subject Came -past tense of the verb (come) In second -preposition phrase (or adverbial) Additioanlly, it is possible: He came second place (in 100 meter race)- adverbial. He finished

By the way, what is a participial phrase? Where shall I begin?? When you look up a verb in the dictionary ("to teach," for example) you'll find certain elements of the word listed: teach taught teaching teaches The first one is the

<< the end of the virtuous life of Abigail will be grave. >> Please educate me about noun phrases. I'm still trying, but I'm slow to catch on. I never heard of them until I joined EF. Any group of words beginning with a noun is

I take this as an example where the "old" condition being described no longer exists because of some recent change. It's not always clear. I don't think there are any rules which will give you the right answer every time.