I have a question for any English experts out there. Actually, I have two questions. They are both sample questions from the SAT writing sections. The underlined portion of the following sentence is in need of correction: Trees are able to

First of all, the information within the sample sentence is not relevant to the question being asked. It's just a sentence taken out of some grammar book so it mentions grammatical things like prepositions. The sentence could have been

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

Hi taiwandave! Wow! What a brilliant post! Though I’m not a grammar student, I found most of your answer pretty easy to follow. There’s just one concept that I need to reference, that is, a to-infinitival. Maybe I’m being too pedestrian for