By Word order, Plurals

Hi Hoa ThaiThere 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 with the word 'all')- Word order (i.e. Does...

You have a problem with the word order. Are all the sentences correct? No, we are asking if they share the same single meaning, one meaning, so the plural 'meanings' is not correct. If the answer is yes, you would say 'yes, they have the same meaning'. Or if it is no, you would say 'no, they...

Alienvoord wrote:What's so wrong with some variation anyway?Many thanks, Alienvoord. I have never seen plurals like Jones's used in modern English, but if they are palatable to native speakers, it only adds to the colorfulness (and confusion) of English. Actually, variation is what I often look...

Hi ForbesThank you for your long reply. I do appreciate it. I would just like to say that I my opinion is based on the knowledge I have of the Germanic and Romance languages and it is of course very subjective. I fully understand that not everyone agrees with me and what I consider easy may be...

Languages are always losing some distinctions and gaining new ones. English lost the singular second person pronoun "thou", but we can still make the distinction between singular and plural second person when we need to, by using "you guys", "you all", etc.In the same way, we can use "literally"...

You are getting there and it is easy to understand what you mean. You still have grammatical problems to keep practising with. Watch your word order. Make sure your articles and nouns match, for example 'a different features' - a is singular but features is plural. Make sure you are using the...

well that is quite a list. Word order can often lead to a huge difference in meaning. Other times it is not so important. To look at these pairs: 1-1. a whole 1.5 million people and 1-2. 1.5 million whole people. Difference in meaning. whole is probably not appropriate in either case.In 1.1 the...

Hi Mowgli, Though it may sound strange to you, because of the word order, the correct verb is 'are'. You might get it to sound better if you rearrange the order in the sentence, of what is on the desk, like this: There are pencils, pens, a phone, and pieces of paper on the desk. You wouldn't,...

MaXmOuSe wrote: 1. Photography changed dramatically __________ introduced instant pictures. A. when Polaroid B. Polaroid C. when was D. it when Polaroid Why we have to use "when Polaroid" not "when was" ? As Cairn says, you need a subject for the verb in the subordinate clause. If you...

korin said: >Over approximately 1500 years, the mammoth set of inflections of the Old English has virtually been discarded leaving only 's' (plural nouns, 3rd person singular verbs, and saxon genitive) in modern English. English has become a rather analytic lg, where most of the syntactic...