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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...

A Myriad of Grammar Problems... :( I have absolutely no idea how to do these, can someone tell me what's going on here, Ive looked up many pages on the web but still am stumped on these: Exercise 9 Rewrite the following in the PASSIVE voice. E.g. 1. My wife wrote the letter. -->...

Hi Mr Liat, I said earlier that the presence of "myself" in "I lay myself in bed" makes the verb transitive. Hence, "lay" here is the present tense of lay ( laid, laid ) and NOT the past of lie ( lay, lain ) because the latter is intransitive and cannot take any...

Verb = swim Swam = past simple tense. Refers to actions/events in past time. "She swam a kilometre yesterday." No connection with present time. Swum = past participle. Used to form the pefect tense with auxiliary verb "have" - have/has/had + past participle = perfect tense. Note the...

Could you guys tell me were my mistakes are in this, I think I got it. Thanks for all the help PRESENT CONDITIONAL (sometimes called the ZERO CONDITIONAL) IF + PRESENT / PRESENT E.g. If you mix yellow and blue, you get green. 1st CONDITIONAL IF + PRESENT / FUTURE E.g. If you...

Hello Blitz Answering the 2nd one first: 'I don't want to die - I'm not even married' is probably the right form here. 1. Here are a few examples of the Past Simple. The past simple verb is in bold. It denotes a completed action in the past. It is 'simple' because it has one part...