Hello guys, i am first time here, although I have studied english syntax for a while. Hope you will be much of help. I have been racking my brain over the following riddle. Can noun clauses be modifiers? I have been under impression that noun

"Ultimately, as Churchill concluded about Russia, the key to unlocking the Korean riddle /mystery/enigma lies in the determining its national interest.' If it were upto me, I would say the key to unlock something, so why the -ing

That works, I think. This describes a general truth. I think the sentence comes from a common riddle about a fox, a hen, and some grain. You could also say, 'the hen will eat the grain.'

Hi, This seems to be a kind of riddle. ie How many people are playing tiddlywinks? Let me offer you a couple of thoughts, so that you can then think about this paragraph a bit more. When you play tiddlywinks, you make your tiddlywink jump up in

Rampant...lions...I get that one! Well, perhaps if they had tails...in ... widespread." (MWCD) You almost had me going for a second. I was actually thinking of the rampant lion in heraldry defined as: rearing on left hind leg with forelegs

US Constitution: # No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United # States, at the ... within the United States. (ObAUE: Note that in modern usage the second comma would be an error.) Donna Richoux: "Nell": It could

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, in alt.usage.english, Philip Eden writes Here is the text of the relelvant paragraph in the ... and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States." So if you were born by Caesarian section ... I wondered about

i see your point. here is the entire block of ... somewhere? thx a lot, it's a hard riddle for me... Use a definition of "camp" along the lines of the following: Main Entry: 3camp Function: noun Etymology: origin unknown 1 ...

i see your point. here is the entire block of text, from which the context could be seen: "Following on ... does this sound reasonable or did i miss a point somewhere? thx a lot, it's a hard riddle for me... "Camp", eh, and not

Why is it that, in English, when we write a sentence of the form "My name is (name) ... of nine Roman letters that spell "Juuitchan". So why do we write as in A, and not as in B? B is logically correct. However, in ordinary English