Questions tagged [sentence-structure]
A complete sentence contains at least a subject and a verb, with all of the words being used in the sentence arranged in such a way that they express a complete thought.
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"So, why would we possibly want to go there?" VS "So, why on earth would we want to go there?"
A person is telling about their visit to one of the the hottest place (the Death Valley) on Earth to experience how it is like there. So, before leaving for there, he is telling about how dangerous, ...
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Reflective writing [closed]
I'm writing a personal reflection on moving to another country. Does the last sentence in this example make sense?
"Firstly, I would suggest begin preparations well in advance. Maybe in this ...
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"He neither texted me nor did he call me". "He neither texted me nor called me". "He neither texted me nor he called me"
"He neither texted me nor did he call me".
"He neither texted me nor called me".
"He neither texted me nor he called me".
Could you please tell me which one is ...
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Different types of verbs referring to different time perspectives
I pretend to have done it when she arrived=I pretend I did when she arrived
I want to have done when she arrived=I want I did it when she arrived
I showed how I understand both examples. 1 seems to ...
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With what tense I follow up "it's time"
When we use the structure "it's time" even if we refer to the future we rather use past tenses for example "it high time we took a shower" we mean now not in the past.
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Interesting structure: --- "If you ever go to sell this place, let me know."
A man, who lost his son because of a brain tumor, says this to the owner of the house:
Listen, if you ever go to sell this place, let me know first because I would like to buy it.
BBC-man wants to ...
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How should I understand the following italic and bold part?
In this following context, how should I take this italic and bold part?
Is something (like 'that is') omitted between the words 'Magadh'i and 'proper'?
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What is this part's simple form?
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"There is posh." (talking about a tea pot)
A lady is serving tea and another lady at the table sees the pot and says:
"A: Oh, tea in a pot. There is posh."
"B: I hate bags in cups." Coronation Street (see: 6:36-6:43)
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Does the italicized part serve as the main clause of the whole sentence?
That is, can I paraphrase the sentence as 'Classical writers claimed that it was only after shadows had become an established, if controversial, part of representation that art itself had begun with ...
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Is it better to use colon instead of semiclolon in 'He likes to talk about himself; that he is a successful businessman...'?
Merriam-webster says:
Semicolons (;) separate independent clauses that are related in
meaning, and they separate items in a list when those items themselves
are long or include commas. For example, ...
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Prepositions after "threaten"
Could you please tell me which of these sentences is/are correct?
-"Our neighbours threatened us about calling the police because of the noise."
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Alone as an adverb or as an adjective
Alone, thought Bittering.
Does the word 'alone' describe Bittering as an adjective or his action of thinking as an adverb? Does the sentence mean that Bittering thought that he was alone or it means ...
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Correct place of adjectival clause
A few stars are known which are hardly bigger than the earth, but most of them are so large that hundreds of thousands of Earth's can be packed inside each and leave room to spare.
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Need or needs with bare infinitive
He need worry about the weather today.
He needs worry about the weather today.
Mostly we see the use of 'need' as modal verb in negative or interrogative sentences where it takes bare infinitive ...
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Should I repeat the subject and the ‘going to’ construction in a compound sentence?
I would like to know if I can write something like this: "I am going to study and go to the supermarket in the evening"; or if I have to write "I am going to study and I am going to go ...
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