In the sentence "complain" has no object and is therefore intransitive, as indeed it always is. The main clause is "Students complain" and the subordinate clause "the teacher does not give enough homework" in which

On the other hand if you say I walked up the stairs , yoy can say : Up the stairs , I walked. This will indicate the difference betweenparticles and prepositions. Best of luck The problem is though that you can say "I

John and Mary were discussing the education received by Newton and his father. Mary said, "Newton's father said he was good at Latin."

No. "The genius of Newton allowed him..." would presumably be acceptable to anyone who thought that the original was ungrammatical; it is difficult to justify why one should be correct and the other not. "Newton's

If you don't believe that anyone can know the answer, why ask the question? I just gave my opinion.

C'mon, Forbes, tell it as it is. Right. I will. I said: "All native English speakers really ought to be able to speak to each other without too much difficulty." What I

Again we seem to be looking at multiple Standard Englishes - dialects of a dialect/sociolect, so to speak. It is the classic problem of how far you go in classification. If one is comparing the styles of two different writers, or perhaps

Standard English is a dialect. Other varieties of English have not devleoped from Standard English, but rather they and Standard English have developed from a common ancestor.

If we are to take this to its logical conclusion then every writer's own ideas about what is correct (and it seems that in any case we are often talking about style rather than grammar) must be a separate Standard English. Standard English if

I quote from Good and Bad English by Wilfred Whitten and Frank Whitaker (published 1938) and bought in a second-hand bookshop many years ago for 4p: LOGIC NOTWITHSTANDING ARE THERE DEGREES OF PERFECTION? Many people worry about the little