He is home He is at home He went home I know that in the sentence 1 and 3 the word home is considered an adverb and in the sentence 2, home is considered a noun. According to Rod Mitchell, a famous linguist and English expert who answers questions on LinkedIn, the word “home” is … Read more
Fill in the right articles: A, An, the, Ø. Boyle’s law states ____ pressure of ____ gas is inversely proportional to ____ volume of ____ gas ____ constant temperature. I Agree to @my name’s response to this question. As @my name explains pressure and volume are specific to gas, so we use “the.” But what … Read more
Many part of speech can be a subject in my native language (Russian) For example – a noun, a adverb, a pronoun, verb etc. But I think in English it isn’t the same. So what can be a subject in English? I know it can be a noun (A dog is barking) A pronoun (I’m … Read more
The sky is dark blue. Source: BBC English Catherine: The sky is dark blue. The sky is dark blue. Finn: So, is blue an adjective or adverb? Catherine: It’s an adjective. Blue is describing the noun sky. Now number two: it’s actually the same sentence but this time, think about the word dark. Is dark … Read more
A previous question asked the same of ‘warm’ in ‘stay warm’ but the single answer was not very satisfying to me and also ‘put’ is not the same as ‘warm’ even if, as the answer suggests, ‘you’ is implied by the invitation ‘stay’. The context of ‘stay put’ is that I saw a picture of … Read more
This word list has these strange symbols for parts of speech which I can’t find documentation on. Wondering if one could list out what they mean. a: the (?) v: be (verb) c: and (conjunction) i: of (?) t: to (?) p: it (?) d: this (?) x: not (?) r: up (?) m: one … Read more
I’m having some confusion here as I’ve been tasked with checking that some texts fit a style guide for work, and it requires that two adjectives directly preceding a noun be hyphenated, e.g. ‘well-dressed woman’. That example is straightforward enough for me, but I have no clue how far it extends. I’m seeing a lot … Read more
I’m trying to understand the grammar of this sentence: Avalanches are dangerous to mountain climbers. What part of speech is the word mountain? Answer It is part of the noun phrase “mountain climbers”, which is itself the complement of the sentence. Specifically “mountain” is a noun modifier (also called an ‘attributive noun’ or a ‘noun … Read more
Suppose that a teacher says I will minus your points if you cheat. To mean “I will deduct your points.” Here, minus is apparently used as a verb. Checking out the dictionaries, it can be seen that minus is only listed as a preposition, adjective, and/or noun. However, some people argue that “minus your points” … Read more
The sentence is “You look pretty tonight”. I believe that pretty would be an adjective as it’s referring to “You”. However in the sentence “You look pretty gorgeous tonight” I believe that pretty would be an adverb. In the first sentence is pretty saying how “You” looks though, meaning it would be an adverb? Answer … Read more
