Good evening, Chris, these are thought-provoking questions you have asked, and here is my opinion backed up by data from authoritative sources. 1. The possibility of tell filling the slot of talk in the example sentence seems questionable at

Hi chattt, Welcome to English Forums. Thanks for joining us. Sorry your post slipped thru the cracks. Everything you say is correct. When you ask if the sentence is "true," do you mean "is it correct?" Yes, it's correct.

Hi, the preposition "of" in this sentence: an act of performing a play or a piece of music, does it mean ' that is ' (the relative pronoun 'that' and the verb be)? That's the general idea. It introduces a phrase

Hi, the preposition "of" in this sentence: an act of performing a play or a piece of music, does it mean ' that is ' (the relative pronoun 'that' and the verb be)? Thanks so much!

Frankly, I cannot work through all your analysis, but 1a and 1b are good, 2a is of course bad, and 2b is still find grammatically, as 'them' is the object of a preposition. Would you prefer that it read ' their idiomatic use and right

Which is a relative pronoun used as the object of a preposition. In a sentence, these phrases would introduce a dependent clause. This the the pencil with which James made a sketch of the masterpiece. That is the house to which they were going. etc.

Anon: Here is the main clause in your sentence: The Statue of Liberty may well be the best-known structure in the world. Statue of Liberty (proper noun) is the subject may be is the verb phrase. "be" is a linking verb (intransitive).

Using the subject/object-case pronoun analysis, one can explain: I like her as much as he . I like her as much as him. No, because yours (and all other such pronouns) does not change from one case to another. Yours is better.

1)Does the phrase need these words in bold to be grammatical, or do you think the group of words in the exemplary sentence are fine as a phrase; that is, they don't need their subjects and/or verbs? Is there rule for when they don't need

We stopped as well at several villages along the way , where we were warmly greeted by the hospitable Dawu people and invited for a meal of flying fish. You can't take many liberties with word order in English, Angliholic. I don't think