Hi, that's because some verbs and expressions require the subjunctive. Below is an excerpt from Swann's book (§567).* 1. What is the subjunctive? Some language have special forms called 'subjunctives', which are used

Greetings: I am helping a student learn English but I am having trouble explaining some grammar to him. In the sentence, “He lives in Britain.”, he understand that the third person singular verb always has an “-s” or “-es” attached to it.

Hi, In assessing one's writing, if you see these words in the Holistic Scale, I'm not familiar with the term 'Holistic Scale', but I'll try to answer anyway would you be wondering what it is saying? No, these comments seem

Hi, In assessing one's writing, if you see these words in the Holistic Scale, would you be wondering what it is saying? Would the use of 'elaborations' be odd? Do you always put a period after each one? When you have the word

Anonymous wrote: Interesting... When used as a pronoun, either is normally singular and takes a singular verb: T he two surgeons disagree with each other more than either does (not do ) with the pathologist. But when either is followed by of and

Clive wrote: 1. Questions with negative words like nobody or nothing use positive tags. 2. Although words like nobody and somebody use a singular verb ('was' in your example), a plural pronoun is commonly used to refer to them. Thus, what

Hi, Welcome to the Forum. I've got a question about tag questions. A tag question is for ex. "You don't go home, do you ?" or "It is strange, isn't it ?" How do you form a tag question if the subject is a pronoun like nobody or somebody ?

Hi, 1. Which one is right or are they both right? Everything went smooth. Everything went smoothly. In your example, you need the adverbial form. 'Smoothly' modifies 'went', ie it describes the 'going', not 'everything'. However,