These are past participles used passively as adjective, aren't they? A much deserved vacation... A desparately needed supply is on the way... A recently discovered oil reserve off the coast of... I may have been too hasty here.

I meant to indicate that all of the options you proposed were acceptable. Sometimes we use the square brackets to show that a word is optional. So, "what" is indeed optional, and both "going" and "doing" are

1 I Can't go faster than (what) I'm already going/doing. (walking or driving) Okay. 2 Tall and big people get good deals on clothes and shoes as there size are the last in stock and so no one buys them so the stores cut prices. (how would

To buy something means to go to the store and purchase it. But there's also an idiom, "to buy something," which means to accept, or believe something which a person tells you. (This is the meaning of your example: "Hey! Did you

I guess there's more than one way to invert something. Assume the normal arrangement is for the subject to come first and the verb to come sometime later. To invert this order would be to reverse it (not place it upside down). I have never

I believe you're correct. So everyone benefits from the arrangement.

We had a poster (eddie) who spent a lot of time delving into appositives, pretty much on his own. I recall that the term "noun phrase" seemed ambiguous at times. We name phrases sometimes for the type of word that "fronts" them

Yes, they are, and (I presume you realize) their verbs are transitive: I deserve a vacation. I need supplies. I discover oil every year. In each of these sentences, the verb takes a direct object. Rgdz, - A.

Numbers one and two seem fine to me. 3, 4, & 5 have problems. That's my limit. Now I have to rest.

<< 1. a much waited dance performance 2. a much appeared news item >> Sadly, I don't recognize either of them. I'd say, "a much awaited dance performance" and "an oft appearing news item" While these