Sat 5 Oct, 2013 02:41 pm - When a sentence is both an imperative (command or request) and exclamatory, "Get out!"
is it considered an imperative sentence, an exclamatory sentence, or both? (view)
Sat 5 Oct, 2013 02:40 pm - Can a verb ever be considered to be both Transitive and Linking, ie when a Transitive verb takes an objective complement, does this have anything to do with linking verbs, since it is incomplete?... (view)
Sat 5 Oct, 2013 02:31 pm - Am I correct to think that the verb "to be" can either be used as a linking verb or as a helping verb in a sentence. It would not be both, but must be one of the two.
ex. I am sick.... (view)
Sat 5 Oct, 2013 02:21 pm - Thanks for your help. I'm not so concerned with the colloquial, but grammatically speaking, if it is implied that I am doing the action to myself, even though the word "myself" is... (view)
Sat 5 Oct, 2013 12:03 pm - My grammar book organizes verbs under "Intransitive Verbs that can be used Transitively" and also "Transitive Verbs that can be used Intransitively."
Since most verbs can be... (view)
Sat 5 Oct, 2013 12:00 pm - What is the verb in a sentence that includes a gerund?
ex "They were laughing."
Is "were" a helping verb and "laughing" the main verb?
In other words, can... (view)
Sat 5 Oct, 2013 11:56 am - Can a verb ever be considered to be both Transitive and Linking, ie when a Transitive verb takes an objective complement, does this have anything to do with linking verbs, since it is incomplete?... (view)
Sat 5 Oct, 2013 11:53 am - Which is correct:
I lie on my mother's lap.
I lay on my mother's lap. (since the object is sort of understood as being same as the subject) (view)
Mon 23 Sep, 2013 03:53 pm - I have read different things regarding the predicate of the sentence. Can a phrase in a sentence be considered the predicate, or does it need to be just one word and the other words are... (view)
Mon 23 Sep, 2013 03:48 pm - Is there any flexibility regarding what the subject of a sentence could be, if there are two nouns in the sentence? I read that the subject is usually at the beginning of a sentence, but not... (view)
