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This is a good question and one that is important. Let me give you the correct sentence first and then give to you an explanation. "He has already gone to school." The reason why "has" is correct...
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The problem of the question that I do not see any of the phrases written correctly. The correct phrase would have been the option that would have shown the words: One of my favorite songs. The...
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Well, there are some different choices on some of these, but here goes: Your books are kept on the top shelf. I will not hide the truth from you. She was angry (at, or with) me for nothing. This is...
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There are a number of ways that you can fill in this blank. I have known him for a long time. (This shows that you knew him before and that you still know him today.) I knew him for a long time....
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In terms of how you use them in a sentence, there is no difference between these two words. They are both indefinite articles that are used to refer to something that is not already known to the...
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In my opinion, there are two prepositions that could be used to complete this sentence. You could use "with" or you could use "at." So the sentences would be He is vexed with me. He is vexed at...
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Auxiliary means to help or support something else, to act as a backup, and to be secondary to something more significant. Auxiliary verbs are often called helping verbs. Lexical means "relating to...
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Structural Grammar: A grammar intended to explain the working of language in terms of the functions of its components and their relationships to each other without reference to meaning....
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1. The downslide country of the economy is a on In this sentence, the words are simply in the wrong order. If our job was to rearrange the exact words from the original sentence into a clear...
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A phoneme is a unit of sound in a language that cannot be analysed into smaller linear units and that can distinguish one word from another. Phonemes are often presented surrounded by // in...
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Definite nouns refer to a specific number of things. For example, a definite noun is "bird." When readers come across this noun, they are sure of how many birds the sentence, or phrase, is...
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Falling back on the ultimate resources of Strunk and White's Elements of Style and the Associated Press stylebook, you would be well-advised to use semicolons to avoid confusion.Any time there is a...
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Below are your answers for the words you requested: photographer = pho-TOG'-raph-er. The stress is on the second syllable. photography = pho-TOG'-raph-y. The same as photographer; the stress is on...
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Affixes are lexical additions to the root of a word. The purpose is to either change the meaning or class of a word (derivational) or to modify a word to indicate its grammatical components and...
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The most likely answers here are by since on or perhaps at -- on is more American, but it seems to me that I have heard British people use "at." on my against Remember that a preposition typically...
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"We are yet to receive our check" is a polite way to say "we have not yet received our check." It is a somewhat old-fashioned form, but its meaning is that we have not yet received it. Quite...
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A "theme" is simply what the clause is about. In the simplest kind of English sentence, it is the subject, which generally comes first. For example, in the sentence "Mary sings," Mary is the...
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The only proper way to fill in this blank is with the phrase "have sent." You can say "I have sent him only one letter up to now." Just saying "I sent him only one letter up to now" would not be...
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"Put on" means to clothe oneself or to literally put clothing or jewelry on one's body. Example: "I am going to put on a raincoat before I go outside." "Wear" is the act having clothes or jewelry...
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While it is not grammatically incorrect to begin a sentence with a quotation, it is rather difficult to incorporate that quotation smoothly into your own writing if you use it to begin a sentence,...
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Pure vowels articulate a single vowel phoneme. Dipthongs articulate combined vowel phonemes. According to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), there are eight dipthong vowels. These are...
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I would say that the answer is that "English" in the noun is capitalized. It should be capitalized because it references a nation. "English" came from "England." The word is derived from a...
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This is a good question. There are two basic points that need to be examined to answer your question. First, we need to define what a clause is. Second, we need to examine what a finite verb is....
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A descriptive text contains words which will appeal to the senses (taste, touch, sight, sound, smell) of the reader. By appealing to the senses of the reader, he or she will be able to create a...
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“Simply” is an adverb; it modifies verbs, adjectives, etc. “Simple” is an adjective; it modifies nouns. In normal speech, the signifier “simply” is used to mean “without excess” or “without...
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Yes, this sentence is 100% grammatically correct. You can end sentences with a main verb or an auxiliary (helping) verb. You could also write, "Waverly is not as smart as June is," or "They are not...
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First, be sure to understand what a phrase is. The phrase is one or more words without a subject and verb together. A phrase cannot stand by itself. Sometimes a sentence can communicate its...
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Although these words sound alike (particularly stimulate and simulate) they are rather different in meaning. To stimulate something is to encourage it to do something. The government tries to...
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1. He is the taller of the two brothers. 2. He would make a better engineer than a doctor. 1. The “grammar” is correct here (that is, no rules of English grammar are violated), but there is...
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The only preposition that actually goes properly with this is "over." This is not the only preposition that would be grammatically correct, but it is the only one that properly completes the...
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Speakers will often use parenthetical phrases when they discuss a topic; these phrases are digressions which add some new thought or insight to the topic. They can be as simple as something like...
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Essentially, you are changing the question into a statement (with the exception of example number four). Instead of asking the each example in the form of a question, one can manipulate the...
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Then, discuss with the others. According to Hodges' Harbace Handbook, one should use a comma to set off words such as interjections, vocatives (words used to address someone directly), or...
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I do not know that this is really a question of grammar. To me, it is really just a question of usage. There is no grammatical reason that a person should be "in" mathematics as opposed to being...
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Starting a sentence with "unless" is much the same as starting a sentence with "because." Although our 4th grade teachers told us NEVER TO DO IT (because in 4th grade it often resulted in a...
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Three words that might be used to describe vowel sounds in these words are: long, short and silent. The word “abide” has a “long” vowel sound in the “i” and a “silent” “e” at the end. It is the “e”...
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The most correct would be to use the present progressive tense, "We have been studying English for five years." That tense indicates that the action began in the past, but is still continuing. You...
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A noun phrase is a unified group of words that has a noun as a head word. The group may have modifying words before the noun and modifying prepositional phrases or restrictive, defining relative...
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In your sentence the word but means except and is used as a preposition. Since sentences can begin with prepositional phrases, this sentence is grammatically sound. However, there should be a...
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A semantic component is a combination of words, also known as a "composite of lexical units" that attends to the meaning of such word combination and is interchangeable as long as it retains the...
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An overview of some rules for word formation in English is offered below. CompoundingFrequent collocations over time and with usage become double- or triple-word compounds that with further time...
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We stand united and fall divided. This remains a simple sentence because it has only one subject, we. The subject has two verbs, but the one subject keeps it a simple sentence. These kind of...
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In this word, the prefix is the "im." In this case, the prefix "im" is affixed to the word "possible." The prefix negates the meaning of the word because "im" is a prefix that means "not." If you...
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I think the phrase you are looking for is "all of a sudden," not "all on a sudden." This phrase has the exact same meaning as "suddenly." The word sudden is an adjective that means happening or...
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Consonants are sounds produced with the vocal tract restricted or completely closed. Consonants are classified in contrast to vowels, sounds produced with the vocal tract completely open....
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In English grammar there are 8 parts of speech: nouns pronouns verbs adjectives adverbs prepositions conjunctions interjections Within the category of adjectives, however, there are different...
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This is a good question. The correct answer is: "Are you one of those people who think that accidents never happen?" What we have here is a relative clause and you are asked to give the proper form...
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Category differs from function because category denotes what a word is while function denotes what a word does. What kind of [sentence] constituent is this? — This question denotes...
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[eNotes Editors may address only two (maybe three) samples in this sort of Question with a list of assignment samples. My instruction uses a couple of your samples plus others, so you should be...
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Open classes of words are the classes that may continually be added to. For instance, Verbs are an Open class of words because new verbs may be created at any time and, in fact, are created all the...