2020年6月15日 · A: Ava turns around and with the expression suddenly displayed in her eyes, Andy standing before her proved to be the one to her heart's desire. B: Ava turns around and with the expression suddenly

2014年12月22日 · Now, it might be acceptable to use a plural in some edge cases. In A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (1985 Quirk et al.), page 756: Similarly, interrogative who and what as subjects normally take a singular verb even when the speaker has reason to believe that more than one person or entity is involved.

2012年3月20日 · Actually I think the correct grammar would be, "Adam's problem is similar to the majority of people's in the western world." That is, the problem belongs to the people, not to the world. But that's exactly why, as you say, the construction is awkward.

2014年12月7日 · The earliest reference in that paper is a survey of non-standard English by the US Department of Education in 1968 (Labov et al. 1968). However, that's almost certainly not the first use of the invariant be , but rather when linguistics researchers started to see value in describing African American Vernacular English (AAVE).

2020年7月26日 · Here are some examples: The far side of the Moon is of particular interest to the scientists. Anglo is of European origin Morning exercises is of benefit to your health So what does "is of&quo...

2017年4月25日 · The core meanings may differ subtly, but idiomatically people use both forms quite often and with considerable overlap in meaning. I think it's a mistake to suppose that English in general gravitates toward one correct form of a verb + preposition combination and deems all others incorrect.

2010年8月27日 · I don't think "the English language" is a compound noun. The word "English" behaves as an adjective in other contexts: "they are English", "a very English tradition". It has the suffix "-ish", which is associated with adjectives rather than nouns. The use of "English" as a noun referring to a language seems to be a type of ellipsis. –

2014年6月18日 · The webpage discusses the rule of order for time, date, place, building, etc., in grammar.

For British English books like H W Fowler's Modern English Usage and Sir Ernest Gower's Plain Words: A Guide to the Use of English have been very influential. Significant disputes over what is "correct" grammar have always been a feature of the English language - for example see the Wikipedia article on English grammar disputes - that article ...

2020年3月17日 · I'm trying to sum up some rules for myself around the following two patterns: "as + adjective + as"; "as many/few/little/much as".