Thanks Clive, What I could understand is that we can use participle -ing form to postmodify a noun/noun phrase irrespective of the aspect of the clause (past/present). Could you please let me whether the same rule applies to the Infinitives?

Hello Friends, I have got couple of questions regarding Post-modification of a noun/noun pharse by -ing participle form. I guess, "Having been" is Perfect Gerund, can we use "Perfect Gerund" to postmodify a Noun/Noun phrase? Can we use

Thanks CalifJim. Sabya

Dear Teachers, I have got some doubts about forming So..That..(meaning In order to) structure. 1) I informed everyone so that nobody would face any problem (This is the structure using past tense in the main clause) Now, if I use past

Thanks CalifJim, Clive, Philip, Goodman and Cool Breeze. Your explanations were quite lucid. Thanks Sabya

Hello Clive, I have read this in "A Student's Grammar of The English Language" by Grrenbaum and Quirck. This is a concise version of their legandary work "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language". It says. "With verbless clause it

Thanks for the reply. But this doesn't seem to be the answer of my question. Could anyone please explain Verbless clause and how we can form a verbless clause in English? Thanks Sabya

Hello Teachers, I would like to know what is a verbless clause and how we can form a verbless clause in english. Here is a sentence, which I suppose could an example of verbless clause. Though my influence was quite widespread among my

Hello Teachers, Please consider the following sentences. 1) you can consider it completed 2) you can consider it's completed 3) you can consider its being completed 4) you can consider its having been completed Can you please

Thanks a lot Barbara.