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I agree with you to a certain extent. I'm sure there must be an ESL term for an adjective used as a noun in this way. I know that if you look up "wealthy" in the dictionary you'll find it listed only as an adjective, and not as a noun. But it can clearly be used as the subject...

"John and me went to town" may be common, but I would consider it incorrect usage. Many native speakers use it, but I would definitely not advise an English learner to adopt it. It's not based on "shaky grounds" but on the difference between grammatical subjects and grammatical objects. ...

Hello again, MrP (IF I may I call you MrP). I think I understand now what you meant in the post I found confusing. You said: “...which implies that the subject of the <whosever/whose-ever> clause in the example is the same as the subject of the main clause. However, the...

Thanks, Paco, I'd forgotten about that thread! Since we're discussing passive constructions ('who was given the book?') rather than active constructions ('to whom did you give the book?'), it might be easier to take an example whose 'active version' doesn't contain an indirect object: 1....

Hello, Lupa The difference between transitive and intransitive verbs is that transitive verbs take objects (direct and/or indirect), whereas intransitive verbs will not accept them. This difference applies also to phrasal verbs (multi-word verbs that consist of a verb plus an adverbial...