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Jessica York Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

NEED A NATIVE SPEAKER'S help

0 Hope anyone could help me.Is it possible in English to say: 02br
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00We are confident and are both interested in……. 02br
00There is a table and a chair … 02br
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00 In add,could anyone explain to me the use of reflexive pronouns. 02br
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00Grateful beforehand, 02br
00Jessica 0-
  

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0'We are confident and are both interested in' -- I do not like this one. 'We are both confident and interested in'-- reason: parallel structure. 02br 02br 00'There is a table and a chair'-- a bone of contention among grammarians.

  • 0'We are confident and are both interested in' -- I do not like this one.
  • 'We are both confident and interested in'-- reason: parallel structure.
  • 02br 02br 00'There is a table and a chair'-- a bone of contention among grammarians.
  • Fine by me: the speaker seems to be noticing one item at a time.
  • Conservatives would have you use 'are'.
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0'We are confident and are both interested in' -- I do not like this one. 'We are both confident and interested in'-- reason: parallel structure. 02br
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00'There is a table and a chair'-- a bone of contention among grammarians. Fine by me: the speaker seems to be noticing one item at a time. Conservatives would have you use 'are'. 02br
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00Reflex
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Many thanks for your help.And what about the use of ALL?When and where could I put it?



And one more thing:when a preposition is left out in the end of a sentence?
e.g.:::::I like the city I'm living IN
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1. Use 'all' when you mean everything/everyone of whatever you're talking about, and put it before the noun or noun phrase if there is one:

All men are created equal.
All of my friends are gay.
All is flux.

There are also other uses of the word, too various to go into here.


2. Omit the preposition at the end when it appears earlier in the sentence. B
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0 Could anyone help me (in detail) with: 02br
00Gradable and ungradable adjectives 02br
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00Reflexive pronouns 02br
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00And one more thing :is it possible to say; 02br
00Have you ever thought about who is the one you need? 02br
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00GRATEFUL 02br
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0 Hello, MM. 02br
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00> All is flux. 02br
00What does this mean? 02br
00Is it the same as"All is in flux"? 02br
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00Thanks in advance. 0-
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0(1) There's not much detail to gradables/ungradables, Jessica-- it's pretty straightforward: 02br
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00"Gradable adjectives describe qualities that we can measure or grade in some way. We can say something is 'quite wet', 'very wet' or 'terribly wet'. We can use intensifiers and downtoners (fairly, rather) with gradable adjectives. [The most obvious gradable adjectives
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0 Thank you very much, MM! 0-

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