http://drewd.com/2007/10/01/adverbs-cannot-be-plural The Adventures of Carlos d'Avis Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:45:06 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://drewd.com/2007/10/01/adverbs-cannot-be-plural/comment-page-1#comment-16426 i Am a Nerd Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:03:51 +0000 http://drewd.com/2007/10/01/adverbs-cannot-be-plural/#comment-16426 [...] find grammar, punctuation, semantics, etc. to be quite interesting and tend to obsess over certain rules or peculiarities. In addition to my constant battle against incorrectly dangling [...] [...] find grammar, punctuation, semantics, etc. to be quite interesting and tend to obsess over certain rules or peculiarities. In addition to my constant battle against incorrectly dangling [...]

]]> http://drewd.com/2007/10/01/adverbs-cannot-be-plural/comment-page-1#comment-5652 laura Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:20:16 +0000 http://drewd.com/2007/10/01/adverbs-cannot-be-plural/#comment-5652 I only know of the one way of telling - I just stopped worrying about it too much. I wouldn't know about them at all except that an old German teacher who also taught ESL mentioned it one time and an English major picked a huge, silly fight over it. Eventually the teacher brought in a textbook with a big list of seperable phrasal verbs to shut her up. I only know of the one way of telling - I just stopped worrying about it too much. I wouldn't know about them at all except that an old German teacher who also taught ESL mentioned it one time and an English major picked a huge, silly fight over it. Eventually the teacher brought in a textbook with a big list of seperable phrasal verbs to shut her up.

]]> http://drewd.com/2007/10/01/adverbs-cannot-be-plural/comment-page-1#comment-5592 drew Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:33:24 +0000 http://drewd.com/2007/10/01/adverbs-cannot-be-plural/#comment-5592 That is an excellent point, Laura. Thank you. I am having trouble finding any websites with a clear rule for this formation. That is an excellent point, Laura. Thank you. I am having trouble finding any websites with a clear rule for this formation.

]]> http://drewd.com/2007/10/01/adverbs-cannot-be-plural/comment-page-1#comment-5565 laura Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:20:36 +0000 http://drewd.com/2007/10/01/adverbs-cannot-be-plural/#comment-5565 Careful about trying to eliminate prepositions at the end of sentences, because English still has decedents of the German seperable prefix verbs (although in English they're seperable phrasal verbs). You can recognize them based on how they behave with nouns versus pronouns: "I handed in the paper" but "I handed it in". They apparently must list these verbs in ESL books, but unfortunately English teachers aren't taught ESL and so don't realize that the dangling preposition rule is artificial and would force awkward rewordings. Careful about trying to eliminate prepositions at the end of sentences, because English still has decedents of the German seperable prefix verbs (although in English they're seperable phrasal verbs). You can recognize them based on how they behave with nouns versus pronouns: "I handed in the paper" but "I handed it in". They apparently must list these verbs in ESL books, but unfortunately English teachers aren't taught ESL and so don't realize that the dangling preposition rule is artificial and would force awkward rewordings.

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