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WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some ...

Mastering subject-verb agreement is fundamental to writing and speaking correct English. This means a singular subject requires a singular verb, and a plural subject requires a plural verb. While ...

Grammar rules for using gerunds and infinitives with examples. GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES – They are sometimes referred to as verb complements, and here’s how they are used in a sentence. A gerund is a ...

IN last week's column, we looked at how inverted sentences allow us to abandon the normal subject-verb-complement (S-V/C) sequence so we can deliver the verb or its complement wherever we feel it can ...

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The five patterns illustrated below provide the basis for all other sentence structures: that is, other kinds of sentences are transformations of these basic patterns. Though the above sentences are ...