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

HI, Tom, who is a brute, punches Mrs. Wilson in the face. In this sentence, it's an adjective clause, because it describes the noun 'Tom'. But consider this examples. I know a fact . 'A fact' is a noun.

Sentence (1)'s word order makes it a question. To make it a statement, say "...their possibilities are ruined." Sentence(2) needs a noun: "The most interesting thing..." , or you could start the sentence, "What is

are there any other words for which this particular word order ( X + adjective + a/an + noun ) applies? Another word that fits this structure is "this" (or "that"): "This talented a writer should not be

My question is: are there any other words for which this particular word order ( X + adjective + a/an + noun ) applies? More specifically, can I use it with quite , really and rather ? He's quite/really/rather talented a writer. (?) quite

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

1) He was as handsome a young man as ever walked along the streets of London. 2) He is as handsome as the young man I don't understand the word order of the second sentence in the above. English has a pair of correlative conjunctions

In French adjectives often follow nouns and because there was a lot of French influence on English after the Battle of Hastings for about 300 years, in some cases the French word order remains in modern English. Court martial is a good example.

I went to the cinema and I liked the film very much - I went to the cinema and I liked very much the film Why can´t I say the second one? The word order of the second sentence would be possible in many languages that have special cases for

. Could I interprete the issue of extending the article "a" to the other two that follow like? Could I take/treat nouns "philosophy" and "religion" as uncountable and would you consider that acceptable?-- As the word