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Will be waiting - verb?
I have been trying to understand how to detect subject and predicate in a sentence. So, I stumbled on this page http://www.dailygrammar.com/Lesson-113-Review.htm
The ff. example was given:
Jim ...
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What is the grammar behind “Thanks be to God”?
What is the grammatical interpretation of the phrase? I don't understand what verb tense or voice is used.
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The use of “trespasses”
According to a dictionary search for "trespasses":
v. Enter the owner's land or property without permission
n. A voluntary wrongful act against the person or property of another, esp. unlawful entry ...
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Indirect speech, past tense use
A member's post on another site has the structure:
This a post I put on [site] and [member] suggested I posted here too.
(emphasis mine)
It appears that being reported speech, post is required to ...
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Determining main verb of a sentence which match with subject + verb + to + verb pattern
If I have sentences
Member is allowed to change himself back
I want to go to school
He needs to stop
What are the predicate of these sentences? Are they allowed - want - need, or ...
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“I had John return the video”: why do we use “return” instead of “returns” or “returned”?
I had John return the video for me.
In this sentence, why do we use return and not returns or returned?
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Verbing, or turning nouns into verbs [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is it called when a non-verb is used as a verb?
The phenomenon of turning a noun into a verb is very common. Some are more well known, like "shouldering the blame" ...
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Can I use an explicit verb in a comparison clause?
It seems that I often write something like this:
The sizes of these datasets seem to grow faster than the processing power of computers does.
Now, a longish text I'd written was proofread (by a ...
