The annual carbon dioxide emission rate has more than tripledI have hard time explaining this sentence structure to my students.
I know it has the present perfect form of 'triple'.
The difficulty lies in 'more than'. If it is simply 'more', it is a sort of adverb.
Having thought about it for...
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Do you consider 'what little' to be a collocation?
Where is this use of 'what' derived from? Could it have come from "What little bread I have!, exclamation mood?
In the examples below, the subject is missing in the subordinating clause highlighted in blue. I would like to know the grammatical explanation or term for omitting the subject. Can you help me?
It was three-quarters empty, as was usual at this hour.
The 1930s saw several policy changes...
OK, so there is no equivalent active form of ''He is said to be a smart man.'.
I was just wondering how and where this particular passive form came to be?
I must have difficulty explaining my question.
He is told to speak to his dad. Someone told him to speak to his dad.
You believe him to be an honest person. He is belived to be an honest person by you.
[They say him to work hard.] He is said to work too hard by them.
[They say him to...
Thank you for your help.
I was looking for some other explanation.
Let me explain what I am looking for with a rather long statement.
I saw him speak to my dad. He was seen to speak to my dad.
In the above example, one can clearly see the close and predictable fomula or relationship...
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I've come across a particular usage of 'fool' as illustrated in the following sentences.
It appears that 'fool you from doing something' means 'deceive you and stop you from doing something'. Is it a correct assumption and is this usage common? I've not been able to locate any...
I have the following two sets of statements. Are they different from each other in the meaning?
I wouldn't have accepted anything except a job in Europe.
I don't take any drugs whatsoever, except aspirin for colds.
I wouldn't have accepted anything except for a job in Europe.
I don't take...
I've been taught that one can't use a that~ clause after a proposition. But I often come across the following construction. How do you explain this discrepancy?
Links in hypertext are new in that they can be followed automatically.
SQLite is different in that copyright law simply does not...