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Re: Adverb /adjective "in the garden"

Goodman — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:25:16 GMT

thactoad

The children in the garden are playing football. - Is this an adjective phrase telling us more about the children?

The children are playing football in the garden. - Is this an adverb phrase of place telling where the children are playing?

However, is the phrase in both sentences also prepositional phrases?

I'm just a little confused!!!

Many thanks

This is how I approach the phrase âin the gardenâ, or any phrase in this nature

By itself, itâs classified as âpreposition phraseâ because of the use of âinâ.
Children are playing [in the garden]. The bracketed phrase is now an adverbial phrase because it tells where the children are playing.
Itâs not an adjective phrase however because it does not contain adjective. If the phrase were â the tallest kid playing is the garden is my sonâ, then itâs an adjective phrase.

This is the extent of my understanding. Feel free to critique if I were wrong about it.

Re: Adverb /adjective "in the garden"

CalifJim — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:08:08 GMT

thactoad
The children in the garden are playing football. - Is this an adjective phrase telling us more about the children?

Yes. It tells which children are being considered -- not the children in the kitchen, for example.

thactoad
The children are playing football in the garden. - Is this an adverb phrase of place telling where the children are playing?

Yes. It says where the playing is taking place. It's not taking place on the street, for example.

thactoad
s the phrase in both sentences also prepositional phrases?

Yes. The term prepositional phrase classifies the phrase as a pattern of certain parts of speech. The terms adjectival and adverbial classify the phrase by its function in the sentence. So you can have an adjectival prepositional phrase and an adverbial prepositional phrase.

Adverb /adjective "in the garden"

thactoad — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:29:21 GMT

The children in the garden are playing football. - Is this an adjective phrase telling us more about the children?

The children are playing football in the garden. - Is this an adverb phrase of place telling where the children are playing?

However, is the phrase in both sentences also prepositional phrases?

I'm just a little confused!!!

Many thanks

Re: Transformational Rules and Subject-Verb Agreement

Cool Breeze — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:08:25 GMT

Anonymous
The couple is living in Dallas
The couple are living in Dallas

Which?

Either one will do. Couple is grammatically singular but two people are needed to form a couple. Especially in British English a plural verb is often used if many people are involved: England are up four to two. That's what a British sports commentator would say about a football match. I don't think I have ever heard is used in that context.

Re: Football / Ice hockey results and scores: How to write and talk

EagerSeeker — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:32:55 GMT

optilang
This is how I would say them

England is leading/is losing/lost/won (by three to one / 3 - 1) - England are leading/losing/lost/won three one.

England is leading/is losing/lost/won (by three goals to one / 3 - 1) - OK

England is leading/is losing/lost/won (by one goal to zero/nil / 3 - 0) - by three goals to nil/ England are losing/lost won three nil.

England is leading/is losing/lost/won (two nil/zero / two to nil/zero / 2 - 0) two nil or by two goals to nil.
The match/game/score is now even 3-3 (three three / ~~three to three~~) in the second half (football). The result is a draw . Three three draw, nil nil draw
The match/game/score is now even 3-3 in the third period (ice hockey).

Thanks for suggestions.

My English-Finnish dictionary has an example of using the verb "win" and according to it I can say "win by three to one".
Any thoughts? I think it would be ok since it is just a shortened version without the word "goals"
The Oxford Advanced Learner's dictionary mentions that the word "zero" is synonym of "nil" so maybe I can also say "two zero"?

And what about if I'll add the preposition "at" as follows?
The match/game/score is now even at 3-3

Re: Football / Ice hockey results and scores: How to write and talk

optilang — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:13:17 GMT

That is interesting indeed and I agree with you Old Man Gordon. I am from Finland and according to my Finnish-English dictionary I should say "Finland is leading 2-0" without using the plural verb and
"The Finns are leading 2-0" when using a plural expression. But I guess this is just a difference between British and American English.

I guess so. I am not from America or Finland.

Re: Football / Ice hockey results and scores: How to write and talk

EagerSeeker — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:04:46 GMT

Old Man Gordon

Optilang-

Is that how it is said on sportscasts in England? The team uses a plural verb, even if the noun (England/Manchester United/etc.) is singular? In the US, we'd use the plural only when talking about the team name which is usually plural, eg The Yakees are losing./ New York is losing.

It gets confusing with the modern innovation of uncountable team names. The Detroit Shock is winning (are winning?).

Re: Football / Ice hockey results and scores: How to write and talk

Old Man Gordon — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:28:42 GMT

Optilang-

Is that how it is said on sportscasts in England? The team uses a plural verb, even if the noun (England/Manchester United/etc.) is singular? In the US, we'd use the plural only when talking about the team name which is usually plural, eg The Yakees are losing./ New York is losing.

It gets confusing with the modern innovation of uncountable team names. The Detroit Shock is winning (are winning?).

Re: Need help over here.

Mr Wordy — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:08:00 GMT

1. Well, "had" is the past tense of the verb "have", but I think you're asking specifically about its use as an auxiliary to form the past perfect tense of other verbs:

I played -- simple past tense

I have played -- present perfect tense

I had played -- past perfect (or pluperfect) tense

So, even though "have" on its own is present tense, it forms a past tense with other verbs. If you do a Google search for these tense names then you will find tons of information on their uses. See, for example, http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfect.html (this page describes the past perfect; all the other tenses are linked down the left hand side).

"I have played football yesterday" isn't right. "have played football" has the general sense of "played football on one or more unspecified occasions in the past", and it doesn't go with "yesterday", which is a specific occasion. Instead you would say "I played football yesterday".

2. "Never" can be used with a variety of different tenses, depending on when the thing in question wasn't/isn't done or didn't/doesn't happen. A couple of examples:

You never told me that you loved me -- means that you didn't tell me in the past, but you might tell me now (or in the future).

You never tell me that you love me -- means that you didn't tell me in the past and you don't tell me now. In other words, the absence of telling continues up to and including the present.

It's not possible to use the present tense with "never before", so "I never do that before" is wrong. It should be "I never did that before" (or "I have never done that before").

Re: please answer these Qs !!ASAP

Yankee — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:10:38 GMT

Choose the correct answer:

Sunset occurs in the ( morning â afternoon- evening ) OK
There is a big celebration ( in â on â at) the end of Ramadan . OK
(on â in â at) the end, we agreed to help him with his debts. OK

Add (a ) , (an ) or (the) where necessary:

Yesterday , I went to an the airport with my father in order to meet a Friend who was coming from .... London The airport was very crowded because three planes arrived at the same time. A porter carried his luggage nad went out of ~~The~~ Departures. There was an airplane trying to land.

Choose:

Â· Mars is ( a half- a quarter â a third) of the earth Not "a half". I'd say "Mars is half the size of Earth.

Â· Spring comes (after- before) winter. after

Â· Autumn occurs (after- before) summer. OK

Â· Life( can â can't )exist on any other planet of the solar system (because- because of ) the ( look â lock- lack) of water and the ( suitable âunsuitable )atmosphere. OK

Â· An (expert-export)is a person who knows a lot about something . OK

Â· Another word for take ( part- place â care ) is " happen". OK

Â· Gifts (are â aren't )refunded . This doesn't make any sense to to me with either are or aren't.

Â· Loans (are â aren't ) refunded . You don't refund a loan -- you repay it.

Â· "The Third World" means all the ( developed â developing ) countries of the world. OK

Correct the verbs and choose:

Â· He has been ( playing ) football ( ~~since~~ â for ) an hour.

Â· He has ( scored ) three goals. OK

Â· She ( has been cleaning ) the house ( since â for ) three hours. OK

Â· She ( has cleaned ) three rooms . OK

Â· They ( ~~have built~~ have been building "> the bridge ( for â since) last Monday

Â· They ( have built ) half of it . OK

Â· The electrician (~~has installed~~ has been installing)the ~~electricity~~ electrical system (for â since ) a week . You can't install electricity, but you can install an electrical system.

Â· He ( has completed ) four rooms.

Â· He (~~has read~~ has been reading) this book ( for- since ) last Friday .

Â· He (has read ) 80 pages .

Join using OR ,AND , BUT :

Â· He wrote a letter . He posted it .

He wrote a letter and posted it . OK

Â· She cleaned the house. She didn't cook lunch .

She cleaned the house but (she) didn't cook lunch . You don't need to use the word 'she' again.

Â· You can drink tea. You can drink coffee.

You can drink tea or coffee. OK

Â· I sent him a letter . He answered it .

I sent him a letter and he answered it . OK

Â· The phone has been ringing for three minutes .No answer. ("No answer" is not a sentence. It is a fragment.)

The phone has been ringing for three minutes but no answer.

Â· You can go by bus . You can go by train .

You can go by bus or by train . OK

Â· The cat chased the mouse . It didn't catch it.

The cat chased the mouse but it didn't catch it.The cat chased the mouse but didn't catch it.

Â· The car hit the boy . It killed him .

The car hit the boy and killed him . OK

Hi Sadeem

Don't leave a space between the last word of a sentence and the period/full stop.

In addition, it would be much easier to read your posts if you only used one light color (yellow, for example) to highlight your answers. All the different colors make your posts a bit hard to read, and using a dark highlight color makes your answer almost impossible to even see. Thanks.