By Sample, Clauses

. 1. (My husband Mark and I both do volunteer work) but (Ryan was only six years old) -- two independant clauses conected by the conj. but? -- Well, yes... BUT sample sentences should make some sense, Fernanda! There is no evident relationship between the two facts, so they should not even be...

My apologies for introducing a joke! The "universal falsehood" reference is a complete joke! It doesn't matter whether what is reported is universally true or unversally false. What's important is that in the speaker's mind it is universally (or eternally, if you wish)...

Cool Breeze wrote: Kooyeen wrote:That leads me to think that "It's no use to do something" is probably not idiomatic for most native speakers and therefore it's better to avoid it.What do you think? Hi KooyeenYou are active as usual. That's very good! I did google for the infinitive as the...

I saw the following third conditional sample sentences from an educational webpage: 1. If I had not gone to university in Spain, I would not be bilingual. 2. If you had attended the training seminar, you would be familiar with the new operational procedures. 3. If we had not felt we...

I'm not sure if there is any prescriptive rule to what I read in a statement as follows: ...after all these years, I asked him if he remembered who I was. The sentence sounded okay to me, but I was also confused as to whether the subjunctive should be at play here and if the past tense of...

Cool Breeze wrote: Belly wrote: I think there is a mistake here. But anyway, how could although and though can go with a gerund? Expecting is not a gerund. It's a present partciple and though + a present participle is used as an active concessive clause equivalent in English:Though living in...

Anicas wrote:Is this correct/possible?Unless Susannah had fought for her dream, she wouldn't have had the chance to study for an engineering degree.Thanks It seems that "unless" doesn't match past participles well in your sample, but it does make sense in the following context: Unless...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: "I don't understand the function of the underlined that in this sentence and what 'that' refers to? Can you give examples to explain this?" This is the question, right? Inchoateknowledge wrote: Note from these examples, that in statements when the preposition is...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: I recommend that we settle this problem (simple sentence, one clause) the red part is a nominal clause, and acts as the object of the verb. 'that' has no reference, but plays an important role grammatically: nominal conjunction that links the verb to its object...

CalifJim wrote:A word used to introduce a clause complement of a verb is called a complementizer. Complements are underlined below.I said the word.I said that Jane would be late today.CJ Thanks for the explantion, CJ, but my confusion is still existent in that the first question of this thread...