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3a) A cat ate the small animal. 3b) A cat is a small animal. The syntactic analyses of the two sentences are differents. In the sentence 3a) we have (s, v, do) while, in the second sentence 3b) we have (s, v (copular), sP). In 3a) “a cat “is noun phrase (a is determiner...

1a) We painted the red door. 1b) We painted the door red. 1a) We painted the red door. "We" is NP consists of the head noun "we" which is pronoun functioning as subject. Painted is VP consisted of the head verb "painted" and it is past simple...

There's some truth in that article. My parents, for instance, used to speak in Sardinian (not a dialect, but recognised as an endangered language by the UNESCO) when talking to each other or to their relatives, but they would only speak Italian with my brother and me. I grew up monolingual,...

<<Do we have to use the definite article "the" for each tense or not? >> To be very strict about it, yes, but we frequently write telegraphically and leave out the the , especially on this site, where we use the names of the tenses so often. <<1.In the use of the Present...

Yoong Liat wrote: Did you see two blue bags which I left / had left on the table? Which verb in bold should I use? Thank you very much. Well, since YL in interested in British English, and since nobody mentioned this before, I think a native speaker would: - generally use present perfect...

Anonymous wrote: hello, I have to look at a bit of language and label or name the parts of speech, for school. Can some one check that this is ok pleae? "It was pandemonium almost as soon as the roadworks went up." Subject Pronoun (it) / verb (past simple of be) (was) / noun (pandemonium) /...

hello, I have to look at a bit of language and label or name the parts of speech, for school. Can some one check that this is ok pleae? "It was pandemonium almost as soon as the roadworks went up." Subject Pronoun (it) / verb (past simple of be) (was) / noun (pandemonium) /...

I read on the Internet about the discovery of Saturn's rings over the last four hundred years. I found it interesting and confusing that the verb tense in the article varies between the past simple and the present simple. I would be very happy if you could tell me why. Here are some of the...

I have a few questions about an article I read: 1. Custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. What is "great moment"? 2. There is no social problem it is more incumbent upon us to understand than this of the role of custom. "it is"? or "it " should be replaced...

I hope the descriptions below are what you need. You can find all these in a dictionary. They = Pronoun made = verb- past simple their = possesive adjective way = noun slowly = adverb across = adverb the = definite article deserted = adjective square = noun