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Compound Adjectives

Omission of subject and/or verb

(1a) I have more power than power can be obtained.

Participles:

A participle is a verbal that acts as an adjective, modifying nouns or pronouns. 

I have seen quite a few people confused with the usage of "to Ving", when to use it and why. 

Adjective Clauses - Restricted vs. Unrestricted

An adjective clause is used to modify nouns.  The pronouns that begin adjective clauses are relative pronouns such as that, which, who, whom, whose and where. 

When can we omit “that”?

(1) “That” used as a relative pronoun.

A common grammar error taught in Taiwan – The Other vs. Another

There are _____ five students waiting in front of the theater.

單一詞在句首用逗點隔開的用法。

 1.  Use commas set off introductory elements of the sentence.  Sometimes, at the beginning of a sentence, the conjunctive adverbs (or adverbial conjunction) will act as a kind of summing up device or transition, and when it does, it is often set off from the rest of the sentence with a comma:

I came across this question at Yahoo Knowledge.  The asker is asking whether we should use “as” or “that” to fill in the blank of the sentence below.

It is such a golden opportunity __  you should not miss.

I got a note from a friend of mine regarding this and I thought that it would be interesting to share my response to him with you all.

(1) The usage of "found" vs. "established" around religion

Embedded questions are questions within another statement or question. They function as noun clauses and as such should generally follow statement, not question, order.

For example:

Inversion is used to emphasize sentences and to ask questions.  It is writing which reverses the usual order of words (S-V-C structure). 

1.  To provide emphasis

ERGATIVE VERBS:  (updated 12/4/09) 

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