Cheers, I'd agree with everything you say! However, being adverbial would mean it cannot be a complement, I would have thought. It would have to be a noun phrase. Do you see it functioning adverbally, but grammatically functioning as a noun

The cherubs of that architectual sky were pigeons, so far overhead in their flutter from roost to roost that they were only faintly discernible. What is the phrase in italics (including the that-clause). It has simply omitted the subject and verb

Hi, Yeah, that works! As we assumed, it was either a trivial error, if one at all. I'd hate to be a writer who has to depend on Word. Here is another example of its incorrectness: a leader is someone on whom people in the organisation model

The change to the present participle form did nothing-it was still marked as ungrammatical. I then tried omitting 'a little' and the underlined word was no longer underlined. And I agree, Goodman, the sentence is poorly constructed. I

I just placed the sentence into Word, and it underlines (in green-meaning grammar error) 'glisten.' It doesn't underline the whole sentence. I changed it to its present participle form, but that did nothing. It doesn't give

Haha, the placement of their heads is definitly erroneous! On innumerable occasions I've had my sentences' incorrectly labelled as 'grammar errors'; it is no wonder the English language is being basterdized! Anyway, as I've

Hi, Um, I didn't write any of these sentences myself, including the first one; I extract them from various sites. The person who wrote the first sentence said that it came up incorrect on Word. I see nothing wrong with it, other than the

Hi, Um, I didn't write any of these sentences myself, including the first one; I extract them from various sites. The person who wrote the first sentence said that it came up incorrect on Word. I see nothing wrong with it, other than the

I see them glisten a little, illuminated by the street lights." Hi again. I think I know why this sentence was recognized as incorrect on Word now. Do you think it could be because it is a misplaced modify? It isn't overtly clear as to

I understand where you are coming from. However, I don't try to learn the names as such. It is more just to have an understanding of different phrases's uses. I was simply interested in determining if there is a time when ing phrases were