This problem of the subject complement is an ongoing debate. It caused because nouns in English don't differenciate between subjective and objective. Only English pronouns do that. In everyday speech and writing the pronouns used in this

Hi Kooyeen I believe the natives seldom refer to grammar and English usage books because they speak English since they were very young, and so they do not have to refer to such books, If you bother to refer to grammar or English usage books,

I don't know what you guys are all on about with devoiced /z/. It's not a devoiced /z/, it's just /s/. In the example that someone above used, "vases"... I don't know about up North or across the pond (either one), but American Standard has that

Hi, This is how I was taught. The terminology can be confusing. I was taught that gerund is the noun form of a verb. Although it’ not a real noun by definition, it functions like one. Another confusing aspect of the “ing” form is that, it’s

You're right - gerunds are not nouns, but rather they act like nouns in many situations. As you know, without an English Academy, language will evolve along, and eventually what enough speakers use in any given context becomes the correct form.

Yankee wrote: Only sentence (b) is correct. No, I can't think of any situation in which "so+adjective+uncountable noun" would work. In that structure you need a or an : "so+adjective+a/an+noun". If you wanted to use an uncountable noun, then you

Orpheus wrote: Do you think that the complexity of grammar of a language reflects the elaborate thinking of its speakers? No, not in the least. If that were true, present-day Anglo-Saxons' thinking would be greatly inferior to that of their

Milky wrote: That is because you, though claiming your thoughts on the matter of English and easiness are subjective, seem to want us all to agree with you. Your posts on the matter, before you began backpedaling, seemed insistent that you were

Maverick9211 wrote: I can ' t differeniate between abt n oun s , v erb s , a djective s , a dverb s , etc . I am not very bad at E nglish. I do understand E nglish very well. I can speak English, but n ot in fluen tly. I can't write it

Cool Breeze wrote: Grammarian-bot wrote: Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers to provide workers with unpaid leave so that they can care for sick or newborn children. I have a serious problem with deciding when to use