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Much humor depends on it, yes. But there the whole sentence usually has two meanings at the same time. Your example is a case where the word has two meanings, one after the other. That's different. It just makes your reader confused and frustrated; whereas your job is to make what you...
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My approach owes more to the concepts of transformational grammar, so I would sayhim doing his job every day is a non-finite clause used as the object of think of.Within that clause him is the pronoun subject, doing is the verb, his job is the noun object, and every day is adverbial. CJ
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The sentence is conditional. should is optional. The second clause should have will, not would or should.CJ
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Version 1.1: Never use ago in the same clause with a present perfect except in the phrase long ago used before the past participle! (Actually even that sentence from the BYU Corpus sounds a little "off" to my ear. In fact, the inversion strikes me as poetic, or at least...
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Are you sure you would call someone who needs lots of cuddles mimoso?Wouldn't that be someone who gives lots of cuddles? mimoso is loving, affectionate.But we wouldn't call someone affectionate just because they needed lots of cuddles. We might call them insecure. CJ
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Yes. It could have been perched by Dad's feet on the floor. Both prepositional phrases are adverbial (modify the verb).You didn't think it was the floor by Dad's feet as opposed to some other floor, did you? CJ
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It should be exactly as Liveinjapan has written it: How long a period of time has passed since then?Alternate:How long has it been since then?CJ
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It is active or passive as sent by the speaker, but as received it may be ambiguous. The ambiguity may have to be resolved by considerations of context.The door was closed.The glass was broken.They were married.CJ
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Nevertheless, hardly anyone ...Nonetheless, hardly anyone ...In spite of this, hardly anyone ...Even though this is true, hardly anyone ...That said, hardly anyone ...CJ
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The underlying sentence isTo think about passive voice is tempting.In this form it is obvious that tempting does not require a following infinitive, by the way. A dummy it replaces the subject and the subject is moved to the end of the sentence. This process creates:It is tempting to think about...
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