Someone I know is being stubborn and saying that an adverb is a noun. I say it cant be a noun because a noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. Is there any way that an adverb can be a noun??
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Adverbs are modifiers of verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. They tell how, when, where, how often and to what extent.\n\nHe ran very quickly. (how? Quickly? To what extent was it quick? Very. Very and quickly are adverbs)\n\nNouns are people, places, things and ideas. \n\nThe boy in the class understood democracy. (boy , class and democracy are all nouns)\n\nHope this helps!
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In formal English, it is incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition (such as "at"). By definition, a preposition is a word that shows the relationship between its object and another part of the sentence. However, the object of a preposition always comes after the preposition. That's why you technically aren't supposed to end a sentence with a preposition.\n\nThe phrase "where at" is also redundant and should be reduced to "where," as you have pointed out. Many people have simply picked up this informal (and incorrect) expression.
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All English verbs can take -ing - as this is how they form particples.  What you mean - I assume - is that some verbs rarely if ever get used in a continuous tense.\n\nThese verbs are often called 'stative verbs'.  'Know' is a prime example and I cannot think of situtaion where a continuous form would be appropriate.  (However, the participle is often used.  Example:  'Knowing Fred's appetite, I expected to find him near the fridge.')\n\n'See' is slightly different.  'I have been seeing quite a lot of David recently' - is quite acceptable usage.\n\n'Hear' is also OK.  I work in an international school where students have to speak English during the day.  'I'm not hearing enough English!'  Is often a playful warning teachers give their students.\n\nWhere the meaning is either 'right now' or 'recently more than usual', the present continuous for such verbs is fine.\n\n'Remember' is also fine.  A patient in hospital might say that he originally had no memory of his accident.  'However, in the last few days I've been remembering more and more details.'\n\nSo, the assumption on which your question is based is not wholly true.
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You certainly can't omit "to have" and you shouldn't eliminate "to be" in (b). I don't quite agree that "I think it true" sounds grammatical anyway. If you like eliminating "to be", use "consider" instead of "think".
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It depends on which is the "subject", and which is the "predicate". "With" would presume association, whilst "By" would suggest Participation.
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Jesse S does not know the meaning of transitive. He is thinking of another similar word, or is being a smart alec and not at all helpful to you. Ignore him.\n\nCan you say the word 'something' after a verb? If you can, then it is a transitive verb. If not, then it is an intransitive verb.\n\ne.g.  to lift (can you lift something? Yes. So 'lift' is a transitive verb.)\nto fall (can you fall something? No. So 'fall' is an intransitive verb.)\nto go (can you go something? No. Intransitive.)\nto eat (can you eat something? Yes. Transitive)\nto remember (transitive)\nto sleep (intransitive)\n\nYou can think of many others, I'm sure.
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It's a verb. It's replacing "said" or "says."
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That that is, is.  That that is not, is not.   Is not that that is, is? It is.\n\nIt's clearer if you write what the sentence means by other words.  Example:\n\nThe thing that exists, exists.  The thing that does not exist, does not exist.  Isn't that which exists, the very thing we say exists?  Yes, it is.
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Yes, 'name' is the object of the preposition 'in'. \n\n"What's" is the contraction of "What is".\n\n'What' is a Interrogative Pronoun, \n\n'is' is a verb (present singular of the irregular verb "to be") \n\n'in' is a preposition.\n\n'a' is an adjective (but classified along with 'an' and 'the' as article) and \n\n'name' is a noun.
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Here's the problem: The subject of the sentence is "creating designs and making modifications." It is a plural subject (there are 2 things in the subject: creating and making). So, the verb has to agree with it. The verb is "helps" and is incorrect. It should be "help" -- which is the form of the verb for a plural subject.
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"is being" is the present progressive form of the verb "to be." The present progressive indicates something that is happening right now in the present and is continuing. It doesn't happen at one single moment (it's not present-- that would usually only mean it's happening right NOW); it happens continuously-- thoughout TODAY. \nThe present progressive is formed with the present form of "to be" according to the subject (for she or he, the form is "is." For I the form is "am" etc etc) plus the "ing" form of the verb. In your example, both "is" and "being" are needed to form the whole verb of the present progressive. "Is" is the auxiliary verb (or 'helping verb') and "being" is the present participle of "to be."\nSo the sentence "She is being quiet today" is grammatically correct.\n\nAlso: The people who are saying that this is a gerund are mistaken. A gerund is a verbal form ending in "ing" and functioning as a NOUN. Here are some examples of gerunds: SWIMMING in the summer is fun. HOPPING on one foot for a long time can be difficult. WRITING songs is one of his favorite pastimes. \nA gerund phrase includes its gerund and its objects, complements, and modifiers, and it still funcions as a noun. In the following examples the whole gerund phase is capitalized: EXERCISING REGULARLY is important for one's health. ("regularly" modifies "exercising") WRITING SONGS is one of his favorite pastimes. ("songs" is the object)\n\nHope this helps
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There NEVER was a rule against splitting infinitives. Years ago, somebody thought that because Latin infinitives can't be split (because they are a single word), that English infinitives can't be split. Some how this ridiculous idea caught on, and some teachers took up the cause.\n\nIt is not a rule. Never was a rule. Put the adverb wherever it will be most effective without adding ambiguity.\n\nCan you imagine this sentence without the split infinitive:\nYou can expect to more than double your earnings.
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Very nice; you must have picked up on the hidden clue.\n\nFrankly, it all depends.  I personally am not very found of grammatical rules, as they seem to be inherently limiting.  As far as I am concerned, you can throw the majority of those rules out the window, as long as you can express yourself clearly and be easily understood.   Case in point: Linguists and English professors do NOT usually make great writers, do they?   In principle, of course, one can always make a strong formal English punctuation argument in favor of your choice "b".  But to me "a" looks much "prettier".   So the question is: Should we keep shoving food into our mouths, mindlessly chewing, and promptly swallowing till our stomachs are full, or should we try to eat less, but eat with our eyes and palates too?   I suppose, it all depends on the circumstances and your point of view.   For instance, if you end up in a hospital with a sever case of malnutrition and dehydration, they “ain’t” “gonna” care much about how you are gonna eat or drink, as long as they end up pumping enough liquids and nutrients into you to save your life.   ... The punctuation waters start getting even murkier as more and more people begin to impose their own rules and restrictions on-line.   Ironically-enough (notice I said Ironically-enough and NOT anomalously-enough LOL) take your own example in this here on-line Y!A milieu, for instance.    The Y!A software will automatically add a question mark (i.e. a "?") to the end of every statement posted, no matter what you do, and be it really a question or NOT!  (And still, they dare to complain that some of those questions aren’t exactly questions)!  LOL    Hence, in a Y!A environment at least, both your choices would be forced into a punctually incorrect stratosphere (for "a" would become "lovelorn"??, and "b" would be transformed into "lovelorn?"?) and the only correct choice would appear to be “the initially incorrect one”, namely just “lovelorn”.  … Now, go figure!   LOL     … Yes my friend, even the oracle should strive for anomalism, at times.  :-)
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Both are absolutely correct.  The adverbial phrase can optionally be placed in several different places in English.  They mean slightly different things, though.  One means that you know a word in your native language but don't know the English translation.  Two means that you may know the English word, but you don't know how to pronounce it.
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It's actually a corrupted adjective and a noun.\n\nIced Cream.\n\nFor example, you can't call Iced Tea Icetea.
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d.  The way to tell when you have a compound noun is to remove the other noun E.g.  A)Please give I your undivided attention.  That makes no sense.  Only d does.
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I HATE it when they omit the comma.  It makes me confused.  I start to wonder if the last two items are more closely related than the other items.  But every time I try to argue about this to somebody, they tell me to stop being so stuck up about grammar when my own isn't so good.  So I just keep quiet and ignore it.