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  • What should the first sentence in this poem be about?

    • Will deactivating, watching movies actually help? I know why.
    • When did I stop cooking?

    All these sentences mean that I was doing some activity, working, watching or cooking in the past, and then I finished doing it. In these cases, the verb stop is taking another verb as its complement. The verb in question is called in the English verb.in which case the verb must be in the form of -ing.

    In the Original Poster’s two sentences, stops are used without a complement. How do they do so? If a verb stopped is assuming that the verb is coming up does not have a complement. You can’t tell what the verb is having or what is being done. What used to be my “stop doing”? I stopped in a sentence. It’s like a sentence with a little words.

    • I stopped.

    Suggesting infinitives for expressions in sentences with meaning in the first part of the second section of each. The used infinitives were used for explanation. Why have infinitives of purpose cited to explain the purpose of a person’s actions?

    • I went to a bar for a drink. I asked the bar manager for an apology.
    • I’m flying to Paris to visit my brother.

    Why do you go to the gym? How can I stay fit?

    In the Original Poster’s example sentences, we don’t know what I was doing, but we know why I stopped doing it:

    • to work for a month
    • to watch movies
    • to cook.

    These infinitives are not complements of the verb stop. What are adjuncts which is why i kept doing what i think I should be doing? About the site, you can type in extra information regarding the source or the subject.

    Hope this helps….

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  • What should the first sentence in this poem be about?

    • Will deactivating, watching movies actually help? I know why.
    • When did I stop cooking?

    All these sentences mean that I was doing some activity, working, watching or cooking in the past, and then I finished doing it. In these cases, the verb stop is taking another verb as its complement. The verb in question is called in the English verb.in which case the verb must be in the form of -ing.

    In the Original Poster’s two sentences, stops are used without a complement. How do they do so? If a verb stopped is assuming that the verb is coming up does not have a complement. You can’t tell what the verb is having or what is being done. What used to be my “stop doing”? I stopped in a sentence. It’s like a sentence with a little words.

    • I stopped.

    Suggesting infinitives for expressions in sentences with meaning in the first part of the second section of each. The used infinitives were used for explanation. Why have infinitives of purpose cited to explain the purpose of a person’s actions?

    • I went to a bar for a drink. I asked the bar manager for an apology.
    • I’m flying to Paris to visit my brother.

    Why do you go to the gym? How can I stay fit?

    In the Original Poster’s example sentences, we don’t know what I was doing, but we know why I stopped doing it:

    • to work for a month
    • to watch movies
    • to cook.

    These infinitives are not complements of the verb stop. What are adjuncts which is why i kept doing what i think I should be doing? About the site, you can type in extra information regarding the source or the subject.

    Hope this helps….

    • 4525 views
    • 75 answers
    • 1422 votes
  • What should the first sentence in this poem be about?

    • Will deactivating, watching movies actually help? I know why.
    • When did I stop cooking?

    All these sentences mean that I was doing some activity, working, watching or cooking in the past, and then I finished doing it. In these cases, the verb stop is taking another verb as its complement. The verb in question is called in the English verb.in which case the verb must be in the form of -ing.

    In the Original Poster’s two sentences, stops are used without a complement. How do they do so? If a verb stopped is assuming that the verb is coming up does not have a complement. You can’t tell what the verb is having or what is being done. What used to be my “stop doing”? I stopped in a sentence. It’s like a sentence with a little words.

    • I stopped.

    Suggesting infinitives for expressions in sentences with meaning in the first part of the second section of each. The used infinitives were used for explanation. Why have infinitives of purpose cited to explain the purpose of a person’s actions?

    • I went to a bar for a drink. I asked the bar manager for an apology.
    • I’m flying to Paris to visit my brother.

    Why do you go to the gym? How can I stay fit?

    In the Original Poster’s example sentences, we don’t know what I was doing, but we know why I stopped doing it:

    • to work for a month
    • to watch movies
    • to cook.

    These infinitives are not complements of the verb stop. What are adjuncts which is why i kept doing what i think I should be doing? About the site, you can type in extra information regarding the source or the subject.

    Hope this helps….

    • 4525 views
    • 75 answers
    • 1422 votes
  • What should the first sentence in this poem be about?

    • Will deactivating, watching movies actually help? I know why.
    • When did I stop cooking?

    All these sentences mean that I was doing some activity, working, watching or cooking in the past, and then I finished doing it. In these cases, the verb stop is taking another verb as its complement. The verb in question is called in the English verb.in which case the verb must be in the form of -ing.

    In the Original Poster’s two sentences, stops are used without a complement. How do they do so? If a verb stopped is assuming that the verb is coming up does not have a complement. You can’t tell what the verb is having or what is being done. What used to be my “stop doing”? I stopped in a sentence. It’s like a sentence with a little words.

    • I stopped.

    Suggesting infinitives for expressions in sentences with meaning in the first part of the second section of each. The used infinitives were used for explanation. Why have infinitives of purpose cited to explain the purpose of a person’s actions?

    • I went to a bar for a drink. I asked the bar manager for an apology.
    • I’m flying to Paris to visit my brother.

    Why do you go to the gym? How can I stay fit?

    In the Original Poster’s example sentences, we don’t know what I was doing, but we know why I stopped doing it:

    • to work for a month
    • to watch movies
    • to cook.

    These infinitives are not complements of the verb stop. What are adjuncts which is why i kept doing what i think I should be doing? About the site, you can type in extra information regarding the source or the subject.

    Hope this helps….

    • 4525 views
    • 75 answers
    • 1422 votes
  • What should the first sentence in this poem be about?

    • Will deactivating, watching movies actually help? I know why.
    • When did I stop cooking?

    All these sentences mean that I was doing some activity, working, watching or cooking in the past, and then I finished doing it. In these cases, the verb stop is taking another verb as its complement. The verb in question is called in the English verb.in which case the verb must be in the form of -ing.

    In the Original Poster’s two sentences, stops are used without a complement. How do they do so? If a verb stopped is assuming that the verb is coming up does not have a complement. You can’t tell what the verb is having or what is being done. What used to be my “stop doing”? I stopped in a sentence. It’s like a sentence with a little words.

    • I stopped.

    Suggesting infinitives for expressions in sentences with meaning in the first part of the second section of each. The used infinitives were used for explanation. Why have infinitives of purpose cited to explain the purpose of a person’s actions?

    • I went to a bar for a drink. I asked the bar manager for an apology.
    • I’m flying to Paris to visit my brother.

    Why do you go to the gym? How can I stay fit?

    In the Original Poster’s example sentences, we don’t know what I was doing, but we know why I stopped doing it:

    • to work for a month
    • to watch movies
    • to cook.

    These infinitives are not complements of the verb stop. What are adjuncts which is why i kept doing what i think I should be doing? About the site, you can type in extra information regarding the source or the subject.

    Hope this helps….

    • 4525 views
    • 75 answers
    • 1422 votes
  • What should the first sentence in this poem be about?

    • Will deactivating, watching movies actually help? I know why.
    • When did I stop cooking?

    All these sentences mean that I was doing some activity, working, watching or cooking in the past, and then I finished doing it. In these cases, the verb stop is taking another verb as its complement. The verb in question is called in the English verb.in which case the verb must be in the form of -ing.

    In the Original Poster’s two sentences, stops are used without a complement. How do they do so? If a verb stopped is assuming that the verb is coming up does not have a complement. You can’t tell what the verb is having or what is being done. What used to be my “stop doing”? I stopped in a sentence. It’s like a sentence with a little words.

    • I stopped.

    Suggesting infinitives for expressions in sentences with meaning in the first part of the second section of each. The used infinitives were used for explanation. Why have infinitives of purpose cited to explain the purpose of a person’s actions?

    • I went to a bar for a drink. I asked the bar manager for an apology.
    • I’m flying to Paris to visit my brother.

    Why do you go to the gym? How can I stay fit?

    In the Original Poster’s example sentences, we don’t know what I was doing, but we know why I stopped doing it:

    • to work for a month
    • to watch movies
    • to cook.

    These infinitives are not complements of the verb stop. What are adjuncts which is why i kept doing what i think I should be doing? About the site, you can type in extra information regarding the source or the subject.

    Hope this helps….

    • 4525 views
    • 75 answers
    • 1422 votes
  • What should the first sentence in this poem be about?

    • Will deactivating, watching movies actually help? I know why.
    • When did I stop cooking?

    All these sentences mean that I was doing some activity, working, watching or cooking in the past, and then I finished doing it. In these cases, the verb stop is taking another verb as its complement. The verb in question is called in the English verb.in which case the verb must be in the form of -ing.

    In the Original Poster’s two sentences, stops are used without a complement. How do they do so? If a verb stopped is assuming that the verb is coming up does not have a complement. You can’t tell what the verb is having or what is being done. What used to be my “stop doing”? I stopped in a sentence. It’s like a sentence with a little words.

    • I stopped.

    Suggesting infinitives for expressions in sentences with meaning in the first part of the second section of each. The used infinitives were used for explanation. Why have infinitives of purpose cited to explain the purpose of a person’s actions?

    • I went to a bar for a drink. I asked the bar manager for an apology.
    • I’m flying to Paris to visit my brother.

    Why do you go to the gym? How can I stay fit?

    In the Original Poster’s example sentences, we don’t know what I was doing, but we know why I stopped doing it:

    • to work for a month
    • to watch movies
    • to cook.

    These infinitives are not complements of the verb stop. What are adjuncts which is why i kept doing what i think I should be doing? About the site, you can type in extra information regarding the source or the subject.

    Hope this helps….

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  • Asked on December 20, 2021 in Grammar.
    1. Simplicity is elegance.
    2. Simple is elegant. I must say simple is elegant.

    An example of what is known as the EQUATIVE or SPECIFYING use of the verb BE,. and will here be considered as true. This sentence is an example of what is supposed to be. What is this particular entity and how it relates to another type of entity would be. Bob is a man.

    • How do they describe that?

    Do the equative use of BE indicate that the entity Bob is also an example of a man. My father said I have a mental belief…

    The second sentence illustrates the use of Academic Be. If “be” is followed with an adjective, the adjective usually tells us about some quality of the entity: Bob is tall.

    The adjective tall describes a property of Bob. In the sentence above the adjectival Tall describes a property of Bob.

    So in the first sentence simplicity is specified as a type of elegance. In the second word elegant tells us a property of simplicity. They are both grammatically correct, but their meanings are slightly different.

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  • Asked on December 20, 2021 in Grammar.
    1. Simplicity is elegance.
    2. Simple is elegant. I must say simple is elegant.

    An example of what is known as the EQUATIVE or SPECIFYING use of the verb BE,. and will here be considered as true. This sentence is an example of what is supposed to be. What is this particular entity and how it relates to another type of entity would be. Bob is a man.

    • How do they describe that?

    Do the equative use of BE indicate that the entity Bob is also an example of a man. My father said I have a mental belief…

    The second sentence illustrates the use of Academic Be. If “be” is followed with an adjective, the adjective usually tells us about some quality of the entity: Bob is tall.

    The adjective tall describes a property of Bob. In the sentence above the adjectival Tall describes a property of Bob.

    So in the first sentence simplicity is specified as a type of elegance. In the second word elegant tells us a property of simplicity. They are both grammatically correct, but their meanings are slightly different.

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  • Asked on September 5, 2021 in Word choice.

    Is there no one I can meet or like yet.

    How could we construct sentences with a similar meaning to the one above using a “yet-to” type construction.

    • I have yet to meet him.

    Where the word “wast” follows the auxiliary verb in this sentence, the word is not really followed by an to infinitive clause. The biggest difference between this construction and the original phrase is that this original uses a negative clause, whereas the yet-to construction uses a positive one. How would that phrase work if I hadn’t met Him yet and could never meet him in future?

    Is Michael Owen the best player so far

    • in the competition?

    What should I expect. I’m yet to see a better player than

    • Michael Owen and I want him to get an equivalent meaning without paying for me to find them I can write.

    What can happen in this sentence? Why is Micheal Owen right? In the original example, this is ruled out because Michael is the best. Why it is a negativity instead of an adjective I guess a new sentence is in that I haven’t seen someone as good as Michael Owen. I’ve watched a bunch of him. Notice that adjective phrases modified by as are before the whole noun phrase and not directly before the

    • noun: as good a meal.
    • *an as good meal. Is

    Michael Owen ever the

    • most good player in this competition?

    Alternatively, we could use the adverb such instead of the adverb as. Notice that such modifies whole noun phrases! Is there a good

    • player in the tournament?
    • If you use such the

    sentence will be like this.. I’ve yet to see such

    • a good player as Michael Owen in this competition.

    What are the best reasons to get married?

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