July 2022

OK; I'll scrap the semicolons on both these fronts! Thanks!Read More...

A closer look at the numbers behind summer vacation shows the growing importance of holiday weekends, which helps explain [ how travel has defied predictions of its demise t o emerge from the pandemic stronger than ever ] . I'm inclined to say that the underlined infinitival clause is an adjunct in clause structure. It functions as a modifier in the bracketed clause, where it indicates a resultant or subsequent meaning.Read More...

Hi, Maged Hosny, As a linker of addition, "as well as" is halfway between both parts of speech. Quirk and Greenbaum define it as a quasi-coordinator. On page 275 of their A University Grammar of English , they explain that quasi-coordinators sometimes resemble coordinating conjunctions and give this example: - He publishes as well as prints his own books. But they add that they can also have a prepositional or subordinating role, as in: - As well as printing the books, he publishes them.Read More...

Hi, Erdal K., In English, we can use V-ing to refer to previous, simultaneous or subsequent actions performed by the subject of the main or a higher-level clause. In the first sentence, there is an adverbial clause starting with "when" whose subject, "the fighter jet," is the subject of "crashed" as well as of "killing," "splintering" and "spewing," all of which are contained within the same "when"-clause, so there's nothing grammatically wrong with that. In the second sentence, "the...Read More...