My native language is Japanese. I remember the difficulties I had learning English language especially when dealing with singular, plural, past, and future tense. I have many native English speaker friends and they seldom known the hardship of learning English and they would not believe me when I declare English is harder than Japanese.
+H Koizumi It is fascinating to hear your perspective! I have only studied one year of Japanese, but I remember some aspects of Japanese being easier (grammar) and some being much more difficult (reading and writing with Kanji). Thank you for watching!
1:47 "Did someone SAY something?" If 'someone' is singular, then don't you think it should be paired with a singular verb? What do you have to say about that?👀 In "He says hi", 'says' is singular
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Thank you for the video, but you need to revise what you said about "collective nouns." Collective nouns can be singular and can be plural. There are some details for that.
You need to work quickly in order to finish on time --------------------------------------------------- In above sentence - is 'to work' an infinitive ? If so what is the role played by infinitive - Subject, Subject Complement, Object, Adjective or Adverb ? Is infinitive modifying any word ? I believe : Subject : I Verb : Need Object : Infinitive : to work Adverb (modifying verb = need) : Quickly Is above sentence breakdown correct ?
In regards to 1:32.. What is happening when someone says : "I'm looking for somebody who loves me" Or "If there is anybody who cares for the elderly that would be helpful"
In the first example, you have two clauses, so you technically have two subjects. The first clause (in this case, the main clause) is "I'm looking for somebody" - here, the subject is "I" and the verb is "am" (the active/conjugated part of the present progressive construction "am looking"). "Somebody" is the object of the preposition "for," with the prepositional phrase "for somebody" functioning adverbially to modify "looking". The second clause, "who loves me," is a category of dependent/subordinate clause called a relative clause, which is a clause that, in its entirety, functions adjectivally to modify a noun. In the case of your first sentence, the relative clause "who loves me" modifies "somebody" - the aforementioned object (and therefore a noun) of the preposition. Your second example is a bit more complicated. Basically, you have three clauses: "If there is anybody," "who cares for the elderly," and "that would be helpful." The first is a pretty straightforward dependent clause, although "there is" is one of those verb constructions that exists in a different-but-still-syntactically-weird form in every language (in Spanish it's "hay," which basically means "has," and in French it's "il y a," which means "he/it there has"). The second is another relative clause, this time modifying "anybody" (which is technically the subject of the the first clause). The third clause is an independent clause (though conventional SWE would use a comma after "elderly" to separate the dependent and independent clauses), but it's a bit clunky because its subject is "that," which can only be a subject in the form of a demonstrative pronoun (a pronoun that basically "points at" some clear referent, e.g. "that was fun" or "those are my favorite buildings") or a relative pronoun (just like "who," but for things, e.g. "The cow that eats all the grass is back in the yard again!"). In this case, it is clearly not a relative pronoun, because relative pronouns are subordinating ("that eats grass" is not an independent clause), and the sentence already begins with a subordinate clause ("If there is anybody who cares for the elderly"). "That would be helpful" is (/is supposed to be) the independent clause in this sentence, which means that "that" must be demonstrative. But this particular "that" is actually specially class of demonstrative pronoun that I call "reflective" (I would say "reflexive," but "reflexive pronoun" means something else, but that's a lesson unto **ahem** itself), which is when the object or referent of the pronoun's namesake demonstration is a previously stated idea. (This is an example of that.) What makes this clunky is the fact that, syntactically speaking, the "reflected" idea that the speaker's use of "that" is demonstrative of is "If there is anybody who cares for the elderly," which, being a dependent clause (by way of the conditional conjunction "if"), isn't really an "idea" at all. We can infer, of course, that what the speaker really means by "that" is "there is somebody who cares for the elderly." Since that's not what's written, however, the best fix would be to replace the awkwardly reflective demonstrative pronoun "that" with the simple subject/object pronoun "it," for which "the general state of things" can be conventionally understood as a common referent (e's.g., "It's snowing," "it's 2:30"). Hope that clears that up. Or, at least, I hope that that clears that that up.
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Are there two meanings for the conjunction 'as well as'. Some people are of the opinion that the verb agreement is determined by the subject 'before as well as' and some people are of the opinion that the verb agreement is determined by the subject 'after aswellas ' in a sentence with the conjunction as well as. For example 1)Sita aswellas her friends is going to the mall . 2)I as well as my friends are playing. Please make it clear to me. Further,I want to know whether verb agreements depends on the first person, 2nd person and 3rd person . Please make it clear to me
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My native language is Japanese. I remember the difficulties I had learning English language especially when dealing with singular, plural, past, and future tense. I have many native English speaker friends and they seldom known the hardship of learning English and they would not believe me when I declare English is harder than Japanese.
+H Koizumi It is fascinating to hear your perspective! I have only studied one year of Japanese, but I remember some aspects of Japanese being easier (grammar) and some being much more difficult (reading and writing with Kanji).
Thank you for watching!
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1:47 "Did someone SAY something?"
If 'someone' is singular, then don't you think it should be paired with a singular verb? What do you have to say about that?👀
In "He says hi", 'says' is singular
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Thank you for the video, but you need to revise what you said about "collective nouns." Collective nouns can be singular and can be plural. There are some details for that.
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You need to work quickly in order to finish on time
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In above sentence - is 'to work' an infinitive ? If so what is the role played by infinitive - Subject, Subject Complement, Object, Adjective or Adverb ? Is infinitive modifying any word ?
I believe :
Subject : I
Verb : Need
Object : Infinitive : to work
Adverb (modifying verb = need) : Quickly
Is above sentence breakdown correct ?
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What about when asking someone "How are you?" Wouldn't "you" be a singular subject and require a singular verb?
In regards to 1:32..
What is happening when someone says :
"I'm looking for somebody who loves me"
Or
"If there is anybody who cares for the elderly that would be helpful"
In the first example, you have two clauses, so you technically have two subjects. The first clause (in this case, the main clause) is "I'm looking for somebody" - here, the subject is "I" and the verb is "am" (the active/conjugated part of the present progressive construction "am looking"). "Somebody" is the object of the preposition "for," with the prepositional phrase "for somebody" functioning adverbially to modify "looking". The second clause, "who loves me," is a category of dependent/subordinate clause called a relative clause, which is a clause that, in its entirety, functions adjectivally to modify a noun. In the case of your first sentence, the relative clause "who loves me" modifies "somebody" - the aforementioned object (and therefore a noun) of the preposition.
Your second example is a bit more complicated. Basically, you have three clauses: "If there is anybody," "who cares for the elderly," and "that would be helpful." The first is a pretty straightforward dependent clause, although "there is" is one of those verb constructions that exists in a different-but-still-syntactically-weird form in every language (in Spanish it's "hay," which basically means "has," and in French it's "il y a," which means "he/it there has"). The second is another relative clause, this time modifying "anybody" (which is technically the subject of the the first clause). The third clause is an independent clause (though conventional SWE would use a comma after "elderly" to separate the dependent and independent clauses), but it's a bit clunky because its subject is "that," which can only be a subject in the form of a demonstrative pronoun (a pronoun that basically "points at" some clear referent, e.g. "that was fun" or "those are my favorite buildings") or a relative pronoun (just like "who," but for things, e.g. "The cow that eats all the grass is back in the yard again!"). In this case, it is clearly not a relative pronoun, because relative pronouns are subordinating ("that eats grass" is not an independent clause), and the sentence already begins with a subordinate clause ("If there is anybody who cares for the elderly"). "That would be helpful" is (/is supposed to be) the independent clause in this sentence, which means that "that" must be demonstrative. But this particular "that" is actually specially class of demonstrative pronoun that I call "reflective" (I would say "reflexive," but "reflexive pronoun" means something else, but that's a lesson unto **ahem** itself), which is when the object or referent of the pronoun's namesake demonstration is a previously stated idea. (This is an example of that.) What makes this clunky is the fact that, syntactically speaking, the "reflected" idea that the speaker's use of "that" is demonstrative of is "If there is anybody who cares for the elderly," which, being a dependent clause (by way of the conditional conjunction "if"), isn't really an "idea" at all. We can infer, of course, that what the speaker really means by "that" is "there is somebody who cares for the elderly." Since that's not what's written, however, the best fix would be to replace the awkwardly reflective demonstrative pronoun "that" with the simple subject/object pronoun "it," for which "the general state of things" can be conventionally understood as a common referent (e's.g., "It's snowing," "it's 2:30").
Hope that clears that up. Or, at least, I hope that that clears that that up.
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I was wondering if I might dare to ask you a question ? Presently, in this example: Neither my friends nor I AM interested in ... Is that correct ? Most people said " is".
Honestly, I would have said: Neither my friends nor AM I interested in.... Thank you. I pay my respects to you. A
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Are there two meanings for the conjunction 'as well as'.
Some people are of the opinion that the verb agreement is determined by the subject 'before as well as' and some people are of the opinion that the verb agreement is determined by the subject 'after aswellas ' in a sentence with the conjunction as well as.
For example
1)Sita aswellas her friends is going to the mall .
2)I as well as my friends are playing.
Please make it clear to me.
Further,I want to know whether verb agreements depends on the first person, 2nd person and 3rd person .
Please make it clear to me
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What about when asking someone "How are you?" Wouldn't "you" be a singular subject and require a singular verb?