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Grammar
Below is a list of directions to correct the mistake, as well as the corrected paragraph. There seems to be more than 5 errors in the original paragraph. In addition, certain spellings of words are...
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Grammar
Syntax refers to the arrangement of different parts of speech according to a set of rules about patterns and order. That is, in English syntactical function refers to the grammatical constructions...
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Grammar
“Downright” is a compound word (“down” and “right”) that serves as a particular kind of modifier because it can serve as both an adjective and an adverb. It modifies either a noun or an...
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Grammar
The primary reason this sentence is ambiguous is because of the unclear placement and use of the word "right." In the English language, the word "right" can mean two very different things. The...
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Grammar
It is important to note that the same word can function as a different part of speech in English depending on where it is placed in a sentence and its context in the sentence. In the sentences you...
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Grammar
Compound sentences simply involve putting together (or "compounding") two sentences with a comma and a joining word (or "coordinating conjunction"). Coordinating conjunctions include and, but, or,...
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Grammar
The tenses of verbs are the forms that indicate the time of action or existence. THE SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE This tense has three uses. (1)The present tense can indicate an action that happens or a...
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Grammar
"When" is not a complex word. To understand why this is so, let's examine what a "complex word" is. A complex word is a word that consists of two parts: at least one base word and either 1) an...
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Grammar
(An adverb modifies a verb, (answering how, why, when, etc.) Here, the verb is “will be getting” (properly, a verb plus auxiliaries). The word “Soon” modifies the verb by answering the...
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Grammar
The difficulty here is the ambiguity of prepositions in English. “In” generally refers to the question “where?” (Where is the cinnamon? In the cupboard.”) “On” also usually refers...
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Grammar
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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Grammar
The beautiful decorated wall made my day would be fine, as a sentence, if you added a comma after beautiful. However, in this situation it is unnecessary to change the adverb into an adjective...
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Grammar
The way to reverse this sentence is to say "Good examples would be civil rights fighters." Still better would be "A good example would be civil rights fighters." Really, your collection of civil...
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Grammar
First, your “sample” is not a compound sentence. It is a simple clause with sentence punctuation (capital letter and period). There is no reason to separate the subject from the predicate with...
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Grammar
This statement is taken from an 1837 speech by John C. Calhoun. Calhoun was a Democratic United States politician from South Carolina. He served in a variety of capacities in the US government,...
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Grammar
There are two methods to identifying the subject of a sentence is. One is in finding the subject first and the other involves finding the verb first. So, there are two questions that can be asked....
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Grammar
Yes, you can find grammar lessons on Enotes. The best way to do it though is by searching for a particular grammar topic through the answered homework questions section. If you are looking for a...
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Grammar
Did the new tour guide remember to stop in the Ancient Greek gallery? Sometimes, it is helpful to rearrange sentences into additional forms in order to understand them more fully. The sentence you...
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Grammar
If you remember what a sentence is (a subject and a predicate which make sense) and its purpose, a non-sentence can be used in much the same way without all the requirements. A non-sentence is...
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Reference
Pictures create images in the mind's eye that allow the person viewing those images a complete freedom of expression. It is crucial, when describing a picture, to make the best use of language to...
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Grammar
Okay. How is this? On the famous and popular Monkey Island that is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, one of the variety of monkeys who is curious, furry, friendly, and named Jin, stands on the arm...
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Grammar
In composing one sentence from a number of simple sentences, the student will want to identify the most important idea and form an independent clause with this main idea. In the first group, for...
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Grammar
We can simplify this sentence into the following concept: (The thing performing the action)(the action)(the thing acted upon) (No one)(ever laughs at)(my jokes) This is Subject-verb-object order,...
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Grammar
I was supposed to give a presentation at a major educational conference last year. The proposal was accepted by the program committee, and everything was all set to go. Unfortunately, my employer...
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Grammar
The first task to completing this assignment is understanding exactly what (a) through (e) are referring to. That means we need to understand the terms "part," "whole," "member," and "category,"...
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Reference
When considering sentence construction, it is important to use various techniques to make essays or short stories interesting. Phrases, including appositive phrases and independent and dependent...
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Grammar
Definition Participles fall into two groups: present participles and past participles; these are two of the principal part of verbs. (Present form, present participle, Past form, Past Participle)...
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Grammar
In your first example--"the these apples"--you are using the article the (also, a determiner) right before these, a demonstrative adjective, which is also a determiner. Although both determiners...
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Grammar
Unlike some languages, English does not overtly denote its indirect objects by preceding them with the word to, so it is a little more challenging to locate them in sentences. However, this little...
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Science
Estimate can be either a noun or a verb. In both instances it is related to making an educated guess about the quantity or value of something, either the act of making the guess (verb) or the...
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Grammar
If you are a not native, the english grammar may seem difficult to you. For example verbe tense can produce confusions, hence, you need to remember that there exists three main tenses (Past Tense,...
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Grammar
After a lifetime of teaching English, I have found that “agreement” is the most perplexing part of learning any language – agreement of number, for example, between subject and predicate...
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Language Arts
Sentence frames refer to the structure of a sentence. Basically, you have a grammatically correct sentence and insert words where they properly fit. In order to use your three words, you have to...
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Grammar
Your question was a little confusing, but I think this is what you were asking: How can I a change a verb into a noun? Turning verbs into nouns is quite simple, as is turning nouns into verbs. In...
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Grammar
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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Language
In considering the content of these sentences and the intention of the writer, it is important to ensure that emphasis is placed appropriately and personalizing the issue (using "us") should be...
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Grammar
Without seeing the rest of the paragraph, the biggest issue I see in this topic sentence is that it is complicated and wordy. It almost contains too much informationfor one sentence, if that makes...
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Grammar
The task was introduced to the child using three practice items that followed the exact same format as the test items The first step is to remove the passive voice – “the task was…”....
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Grammar
I'm a little confused by your wording, but I will do my best to answer you. As I understand it, you are looking for examples of past participles that can be followed by a preposition other than...
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Grammar
Adjectives, of course, modify nouns and pronouns. Adverbs, on the other hand, modify verbs, which describe motion or some form of action. For example, in the sentence, "the team is playing...
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History
In considering an essay at the editing stage, always consider your intent. As an opening paragraph, there needs to be some reference to what will be discussed - the plight of African Americans...
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English teachers
Possessives are so tricky until you really learn the rules, and even then it is easy to get confused by so many irregular nouns. Possessive apostrophes are different from regular apostrophes, and...
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Grammar
The four kinds of sentences are labeled by purpose. They are declarative, imperative, exclamatory and interrogative. A declarative sentence is a statement. It gives information about something....
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Grammar
I think that there is a very good start in this essay about the implications of Type 2 Diabetes. I made a couple of changes to make the new paragraph as such: Type 2 Diabetes is one of the...
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Grammar
It is almost correct. I believe it would be, "It is Randy and she whom they want to see." When a pronoun follows a linking verb, such as "is," the pronoun should be in the nominative case, such as...
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Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem. While many of the words may not make sense to a reader, Carroll's poem is still written using conventional grammar. The main parts of speech one...
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Grammar
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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Grammar
When adding a suffix to a word, you usually do not have to change the spelling of that word. For example, you can ad the suffix ly to words such as love+ly= lovely, usual+ly= usually.When adding...
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Grammar
No. Grammatically, "who" is incorrect. Because everyone is actually the subject of the relative clause--everyone is the subject of the predicate wants--the relative pronoun should be whom,...
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Grammar
The "voice" of a sentence (or clause) determines the relationship between subject and predicate. The term “active” refers to the “voice” of a sentence, and denotes that the subject of the...