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- Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:41 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: participles instead of sub.clauses of reason and time
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1537
Look at this complex sentence with an adverb clause of time: I woke up after I heard the noise. Hearing the noise, I woke up . Hearing is a participle qualifying the pronoun ‘I’. It’s a verbal adjective. Here’s an example with a sub-clause of reason: I did it because I thought all was safe. Thinking...
- Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:09 am
- Forum: Business English
- Topic: thrash one's way to freedom
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2051
- Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:40 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: gerund question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1492
- Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:52 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: I used not to play football.
- Replies: 135
- Views: 70636
Re: I used not to play football.
Originally posted by Metal56: I used not to play football. Is there any real grammatical justification for that form? Personally, I think not. Rather formal and old-fashioned. How about ‘I never used to play football?” Originally posted by Lotus: I didn't used to play football. Shouldn't tha...
- Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:48 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: H
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2647
- Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:04 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: pronunciation problems
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7857
- Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:45 am
- Forum: Business English
- Topic: be set to
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2825
- Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:41 am
- Forum: Business English
- Topic: breadth of vision
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4125
- Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:15 am
- Forum: Business English
- Topic: tamper with
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2440
- Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:18 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Non-definig relative clauses
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1351
- Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:28 pm
- Forum: Business English
- Topic: bets
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2267
- Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:19 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: infinitive as subject
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7313
- Sun May 13, 2007 5:08 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: both and same
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1927
- Sat May 12, 2007 10:58 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: trivial pronunciation problem
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5956
- Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:13 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: 0.5 mile or miles?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6550