On your brackets page there was: "She "scream[ed] the house down"" if I am not changing a quote, do I still use square brackets or are rounded brackets ok to use?
eg: reference(s) -- reference(d) -- reference(ing)
I'm studying English and I can't find the answer to these questions anywhere. Are these two sentences correct?
I walked to the shop for 5 minutes.
I was walking to the shop for 5 minutes.
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In the following sentence fragment, is "were" the correct verb to use, or should it be "was"? How does one tell?
..she also knew that if she were going to make this trip happen...
Take the sentence:
"The storm clouds, that we saw coming, rapidly darkened the sky."
What part of speech is "coming?" Is it a gerund (direct object or predicate nominative) or a participle (adjective / predicate adjective)?
If it is a participle, does that m...
In the practice of sentence diagramming, how would one diagram "one another?"
E.g. "We should love and serve one another."
Do "one another" both go on the horizontal line as a two-word direct object? Or is "another" considered the direct object and "one" is an...