By Tenses, Nominative

Oh, thanks a lot!In addition I would like to know, is every verb of movement concerned with tense this way?

The uses of be are numerous, Sunilghai:–verb (used without object) 1.to exist or live: Shakespeare's “To be or not to be” is the ultimate question. 2.to take place; happen; occur: The wedding was last week. 3.to occupy a place or position: The book is on the table. 4.to continue...

Consider Case Theory (you using the S / D Structure distinction), given VP internal subject hypothesis. VP Therefore, due to the syntactic requirements that the lexicon imposes (DP singularity, Case, VP Tenses, etc.), everything originally in the VP is moved out of it, leaving only traces...

Yes, indeed. According to the Latin-based grammatical rules that many English grammarians have accepted for years (as if English were Latin!), any tense of BE used as a linking verb produces a situation in which both the subject and the complement, i.e., the elements on both sides of the...

The positions before and after a form of to be are both nominative case positions. (who, she, he, etc.). The correct forms therefore never include whom in these structures. Who is it? Who is the president? Who can that be? Who might that be? Who will be there? Who might be in the...

MrPedantic wrote: What are we to make of the fact that adult native speakers often "self-prescriptivise"? Example: "Oh, hello, MrP. MissQ was just telling Randy and me – Randy and I – about L1 acquisition." MrP I read your question wrong... oops. Um, I think that does not resemble...

Your post implies that Americans have not learned to distinguish between the future tense and the emphatic future tense. It's not bogus that the English language has a simple future tense and an emphatic future tense, is it? Ikia I wrote the above post in response to CJ's post, not any other...

CalifJim wrote:If a student points to some construction and asks me if it's the subjunctive or not, I can't reply, 'No, it's a monkey!'Now there you are wrong! You are the teacher and can say any dang thing you want! In fact a smart retort like that might go a long way toward making your...

If a student points to some construction and asks me if it's the subjunctive or not, I can't reply, 'No, it's a monkey!' Now there you are wrong! You are the teacher and can say any dang thing you want! In fact a smart retort like that might go a long way toward making your students realize...

"I like to read adventure stories" is the correct choice. "adventurous" applies to people, not to abstract nouns like "story". My brother is very adventurous. OK This novel is very adventurous. Not OK. ___________________ "Have you found out where you were born?" is correct. The question...