Three questions about general grammar

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So i would like to know, if possible, the answers to these questions. They are for a girl that I tutor and I'm awful at grammar explanations. suffice to say that 'because that's how it is,' isn't the best answer. The more simple the explanation the better because English is not her first language..

1. Why do we say ..... We went on a school trip. Instead of .... We went as a school trip?

2. Why does yet come at the end of a sentence when other similar words don't.

e.g.

'Have you read that book yet?'

'Have you already read that book?

3. In the sentence 'My Favourite was the castle' ... what exactly is favourite noun, adjective etc?

Many thanks and sorry for the anomymous post.

Steven.

Cool Breeze · Accepted Answer

1. Asis wrong!

To go is followed by either on or for in expressions like yours:

He went on/for a walk.

Let's go on/for a moonlight swim!

2. Have you read that book already? isn't exactly wrong either, but less common, and often avoided in writing. Some words just are placed wherever they are placed. There's usually no special reason. Yet is often at the end of a sentence even in negative sentences: He hasn't come yet.

3. Since was is a verb and favourite is the only word after the possessive my, favourite must be a noun. Otherwise the sentence would be ungrammatical. A possessive form cannot be followed by merely an adjective: my easy; his difficult; our incomprehensible.

Furhermore, you can add a plural s to favourite: My favourites were... A plural s is only added to nouns, not adjectives: My good friends; not: My goods friends.

CB

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