A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.
The original purpose of mediaeval grammar schools was the teaching of Latin. Over time the curriculum was broadened, first to include Ancient Greek, and later English and other European languages, natural sciences, mathematics, history, geography, and other subjects. In the late Victorian era grammar schools were reorganised to p...
The observation behind this question is very nice. Use of this locution in indeed limited, to perfect tenses:
Present perfect: I have been to London to visit the Queen
Past perfect (pluperfect): I had never been to London before you took me
Future perfect: I will have been to London by the tim...
There's "ingenue" which has the connotation of innocence. If you want to go less formal, there's "chick" or the latin-flavored "chica".
Finally, as a female, I can attest that it is always a badge of honor to be called a woman. :-)
The homework is as following
As it stands, our rule allows just one determiner in an NP.
NP → (D) (AdjP+) N (PP+) (CP) (PP+)
How can we revise this rule to account for the following data:
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b. the many faces
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Now people in #english on freenode argued that the many is rather
fo...
Starting a sentence with e.g. is always wrong, so the question is moot. E.g. should be preceded by a description of the thing you're giving an example of, therefore e.g. should always be preceded by a comma, e.g. this sentence.
What's the difference?
Example:
I've already seen Terminator.
vs.
I've seen Terminator before.
