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

Hello I'm studying English and now I'm learning contrastive grammar I have some questions according to that subject. Maybe you can help me? 1.Basic concepts within contrastive studies. 2.Problem of word order: place, time sequence

We stopped as well at several villages along the way , where we were warmly greeted by the hospitable Dawu people and invited for a meal of flying fish. You can't take many liberties with word order in English, Angliholic. I don't think

The problem with "hardly do I know about her." is the prepositional phrase - "about her". The way to say this is "I hardly know her." The inversion would be "Hardly do I know her." English is a language that

In Enlgish we mark case with prepositions and word order and even when the dative isn't marked with "to" or "for" we can always distnguish between the two objects because the dative comes first: I'm buying some food for

We certainly don't want you to flunk! First, you have to know what a noun is and what a pronoun is. A noun is a person, place or thing, like a house, a dog, a pen, a computer, or the Internet. A pronoun is a word that substitutes for a noun.

Hi all! I've been giving English conversation lessons to a theology professor for about a year now. He's getting on in the years - a couple years from retirement - and his primary goal has been just to get his spoken English going a little

As a native English speaker (well perhaps not entirely native, I was born in Russia and immigrated to the U.S. at the tender age of 7) I would have to say that apart from the obviously difficult aspects of the English language such as tenses, an

Hi Hoa Thai There were a number of details that I considered in my last post. These included the following: - Sold out used strictly as a verb vs sold out used like an adjective - Verb tense - Using sold vs sold out (particularly in combination

I'll try to give some information on this as a non-professional.This is how it looks like in the serbian language,and I suppose,it is very similar in all other slavic languages and also the latin language. For indicating a location the