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It's not wrong. Normally in English sentences are ordered " Subject (S), Verb (V), Indirect Object (IO), Direct Object (DO) " but can run OSV, and, where pronouns are used in substitution of either the subject or object (e.g. your sentence) there are no word order constraints so...

I'll try to give some information on this as a non-professional.This is how it looks like in the serbian language,and I suppose,it is very similar in all other slavic languages and also the latin language. For indicating a location the locative case of a noun is used.If the english language...

are sought = are looked for. You look for an apartment or job. = You seek an apartment or job. (Not seek for .) I would have said ... are sought with complete secrecy ... . It means People a great many processes depending on such research with complete secrecy ... __ ...

I think you have got your terms mixed up, Anon. Sep a rating a subject from its verb is in no way exceptional in English, as Clive has already shown you. What I think you mean is sep a rating a verb from its object , which does happen in some cases but is often objectionable. In English one...

Hi, I need to write a sentence in the following pattern, and I don't see how it's possible. The pattern is: adjective + direct object + helping verb + subject + verb No articles allowed? So, something like 'Great strength did he use' . This kind of odd word order seems very literary...

Hi Incho I agree with the previous posters completely; I would just like to elaborate a little from a non-native speaker's standpoint to a non-native speaker. We're both foreigners, right? Since there are hardly any inflections in English, the word order is very rigid and certain phrases and...

Believer wrote: In regard to No.2, I can almost swear that I have heard some English professionals saying that there is an implicit word "to" there and whenever you hear the sentences without it, just remember it is to be included for a sentence to be a correct sentence. While I recognize...

The first thing to note is the spelling: the correct spelling is a-c-c-u-s-a-t-i-v-e. Another thing to note is that the term often employed to identify the "case" of words like "him", "her" and "whom" is Objective, rather than Accusative (which is misleading in a simplified grammar like...