By Universities, Nouns

Mr. Miclawer, I wasn’t going to expand this pluralization discussion on “creams” and “wines”. But it really bothered the heck out of me for two reasons. 1) I really wanted to find out if I was really blowing hot air on this subject because of my misunderstanding of this topic, and 2) if there...

Something to chew on:THE NOTION OF STANDARD SPOKEN GRAMMAR The term ‘standard grammar’ is most typically associated with written language,and is usually considered to be characteristic of the recurrent usage of adult,educated native speakers of a language. Standard grammar ideally reveals...

Dear Loretta: Thank-you for your letter. It is always interesting to hear from someone with a similar background or interest. Let me answer some of your questions for you. I want to share with you what I have learned over the years in this business. I hope I can be blunt? 1) You...

Hi K,Thanks for you reply.I can assure you I heard it in the UK, mainly from a couple of teachers at the University ... and they DON'T teach English (one taught "Transports" and the other one still teaches "Environmental Impacts Assessment" ... so they are NOT...

Hi Anon, I had a similar lesson in the university but I still couldn't understand what you mean. Anyway, as I was taught predicates in a sentence follows this rule: Predicate= predicator + predicator complement. I guess your teacher want you to find the function and category names...

hi everyone. i'm looking for information concerning following theme: "Classification of Englsh Nouns. Diachronic And Synchronic Analysis." i'm writing the course-paper at my university and need some help. totally lost in this theme. T.T Thanks Helen.

Grammar Geek wrote:Singing is a gerund, a noun, so it takes the possessive my. This is rather peculiar, I think. I have encountered the same thing on these forums many times. Native speakers say: "A gerund is a noun." Do they teach it that way in American schools and universities? Grammatical...

Hi, I don't think there's the article 'a' before 000 right? University is a countable noun, so why no article? When we say 'I'm going to York University', 'York University' is a proper name (and thus we normally use a capital 'U'). That's why there is no article. If you say 'I'm going to a York...

I don't think there's the article 'a' before 000 right? University is a countable noun, so why no article? Also, without 000 I think the article can be used (what's the difference if it's not used?), like "I'm going to a university". Why is that? I have some suspicions in the matter, but...

Dear Goodman,When I wrote "you could be right though!" I meant about the removing of the 'but' in "The store does not sell books as such, but it sells magazines ..."As I said in my first post, I don't use as such at all. The reason is its repetitive nature hiding behind as such. If I have to...