By Regards, Nouns

Re: relative clause

1. The name of the man who Tom called uncle is Bobby Brown.If you rewrite "man who (subjective case) Tom called uncle", it becomes "Tom called he (subjective case) uncle". It should be "Tom called him (objective case) uncle" from the choice "man whom"; but...

Re: grammar help!

'They' is commonly used here. This is the so-called 'Singular They', but I read somewhere that this is a disputed usage. I have finally located the site where I have seen it. It is a blog post titled Concord failures/noun-pronoun disagreements?‏ Best regards.

Re: rephrase doubts

Hi, (1) What has sensitized me in more recent years from this metaphor is to also say to us that everyone faces storms. Sometimes, those storms come out of huge systems. They may be a tornado or an avalanche or maybe a car accident, when "there is innocence"---no control, vulnerable to...

Re: adjective phrases

Hello Anonymous,In your sentences there is no adjective phrases.A phrase is a name used in the english grammar to label a group of words which acts as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence,which means that you need at least two words to label some part of the sentence a phrase. Words,phrases...

Re: Possessive form when there are more than 2 words

There's no "rule" except for the one that says "don't make your reader work hard to understand what you mean." Your second bullet is awful in that regard. Your first one is okay, but it seems to emphasize the process of creating the recording - not the resulting...

Re: Which sentence is correct?

NO NO! We know - the verb know goes with the subject We The "surround/surrounds" has to with enthusiasm and excitement. If you think of them as one thing, one strongly linked emotion, you can use the singular surrounds. All of the answers posted here so far consider them as two...

Re: Help needed!

Your examples all call for adjectives. The one you said you were sure about is "educational." If the other option is "education" it wouldn't work because it's a noun. "It was a very education experience"? The ones you were unsure of each seem to be a pair...

Questions

Dear teacher, May I use the 'ING' form with any verb to create adjectives or nouns? The adjective 'Telephonic' has it an adverb to be 'Telephonically'? When I can use 'The', 'a', 'an' before nouns? Best regards,

Re: Plural or singular adjective?

Hey, my wife is from Anori! I'd say it depends on what you're planning to do in the workshop. Since I've never heard the expression, I can't say which is more common. If you mean the workshop is generated by questions - totally open to questions - I'd call it a...

a woman of an unusual beauty; [-] decent accommodation

Hi there, Some nouns in English, uncountable under normal circumstances, take the indefinite article when qualified by the adjective or adverbial phrase. How do I tell if a noun should take the indefinite article or not? Examples: When I got back home, I took a short nap to make up for the...