By Verbs, Nouns

Re: Full court...

Basketball term. It's a powerful defense. Also, it's a pun mixing up the terms "full-court press" and "power of the press." Press in the first is a verb, in the second is a noun meaning newspapers, etc.

Re: investigate or investigate on

You use 'on' with the noun investigation rather than the verb. I will investigate on this problem. incorrect. There will be an investigation on this problem. correct.

Re: 'Propulsively' - a word? Why/Why not?

So, I spoke to an english professor last night and I was told... A verb can not be described as 'propulsive', therefore it is not an adverb. "The bat propulsively affected the ball" is incorrect. However, "The effect of the bat was propulsive" is correct. When you...

grammar learning

II'd be one to admit grammar is never my strong suit but I'm always eager to learn. I've read thoroughly the thread titled "grammar exercise" regarding noun clause/subordinate clause used as adjective, adverb, indirect object and so forth. I really had to strain my brain to...

Re: "I don't believe such thing to exist." Is this sentence wrong?

I don't believe such thing to exist. It is uncommon, but it's really not all that different from "I don't want this thing to exist." (different verb, different adjective) You can even let both these adjectives act as pronouns, and omit the "thing." "I...

Re: become tired/tires

No! See my examples above. You have applied the rule faithfully, but to verbs that don't allow that treatment. There really aren't that many verbs that follow this pattern. And even those that do may seem more or less contrived, depending on the context.*I interest easily won't...

"schlump" vs "slump"

Do the verbs "schlump" and "slump" have anything to do with each other? Any relation there? The origin in Norweigan I'm not familiar with as it would normally signify something “done by random” (randomize) .. I originally saw schlump in a Douglas Coupland novel: “I...

Re: Maybe or may not be

Don't put an adverb between a verb and its object, or it'll sound odd. I don't see infinitives as objects in this case, so it's ok to put something else between the infinitive and the main verb in sentences like "I tried (...) to install blah blah".I think objects are...

Re: Is this sentence correct?

Again, you are just making a long noun phrase. The modifying clauses like which defines your lifestyle do not supply the necessary verb.Here are some non-sentences like the ones you are making:The boy who laughed. What about him? The boy who laughed did what?You can change this to: The boy...

Re: Adjective

The word laugh is either a noun or a verb, never an adjective or adverb. If it follows a possessive pronoun (which could be substituted with the definite article) it must be a noun. Words with the "ly" suffix are adverbial.