it sounds fine, however, I would change the comma and would use a relative clause: In 1990, in a town called Tortosa, was founded the Special Education School "Gloria S." which shared different spaces and activities with the

Yes. The "because" clause is an additional thought, not necessary to the meaning of the opening statement. So separate it. Perhaps it would be clearer to see this if you turned the sentence around: "Because students have to get

Hello Michal 1. ' The girl is a student at a large university " is analysed as SVA, as I said, because the at-phrase restrictively defines 'student'. I can't read a meaning in which the at-phrase is independently

Hi guys, Thanks so much for answering. You're great! BillJ, I totally agree with your analysis of my "I made her cry" sentence. It's been 4 years since I had my descriptive grammar course and I sheer forgot how to account for

I made her sad. I (S) made (V) her (Direct Object) sad (Object Complement). I made her cry. I (S) made (V) her (Direct Object) cry (?? I don't think verbs can be complements, right? What might it be, then?). Another thing - what

Hi English 1b3 I agree with you that the context of a passage as a whole can play a part in the tense choice of the main clause. As a simple statement of fact, in a text that basically recounts things in the order they happened, I'd prefer

The tense of a verb in the subordinate clause changes in accordance with the tense of the verb in the main clause. I think the tense of a verb in the main clause changes in accordance with the context of the passage as a whole. But, in

Fred asks questions he already knows the answers to, so that he can sound intelligent when proving the given answers wrong. 1) Can subordinating conjunctions (like so that) join a subordinate clause (so that he can sound...) to a

The comma in that sentence is not necessary. Even thought the second clause could technically stand as a sentence alone, 'it' is not defined. Therefore, it would best be left as is, sans the comma. I hope this adequately answers

Ferdis, I have no doubted that you have studied English extenesively by how you have theorized the grammatical property. And I appreciate that. But I am not convinced by your explanations and points. Mainly, "Mother is in the kitchen