Jaleel.nt, in the first instance, we deal with a phenomenon that is conventionally known as a passive gerund ; the whole clause with being... can be substituted with a noun phrase, eg, ...this award . Therefore, we refer to being... as a nominal

Hii, I have a question related to this that nagged me for some time in the past and that I forgot ... until I saw this thread. I know that there's a special word order when we have as - how - so - too , the indefinite article, a noun and an

This is a spin-off from: Post:77524 where (among other things) the sentence 1. '*Whom was given the book?' was discussed. I understand that in AmE, this sentence is acceptable: 2. Whom did you give the book? If 'whom' is acceptable

Berkeley, Your question is all about subjects and objects, but people have become confused about these when in their pronoun form (subject "I" or object "me" rather than "Berkeley"). If you're leading

hi, Below is an announcement for a new project, and this to standardized the processes of this project so kindly your precious advice is so needed and also if you have any helpful tempaltes for the same purpose. Dear Sir As agreed in

hi , is the below looks correct?! Hello Everyone, As you aware that the documentation phase from the xyz project on its last stage to finalize this phase and close it off, follow up to this phase next week will be the review pahse to be

Hi All I had introduction meeting with a customer's manger, and I prepared a follow up thank you letter: Dear xyz it was a big pleasure to have this fruitiness meeting with you. and in case you needed any support or have any issues you should

I would define an analytic language as one in which the functions of words in a sentence are defined either by other "grammatical" words (and not by the changes of endings in words) and/or by word order. Languages are not necessarily

First of all, so as for is not a grouping. Here so means therefore , and as for goes together as a grouping meaning concerning or in regard to . So as for leaving tomorrow, the trip is off = Therefore, leaving tomorrow, the trip is off. _____ so

Is that correct? it seems wrong 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