English grammar explanation

She drilled the basics of English grammar into her students thoroughly.

The idea that there is no 'future tense' is becoming common knowledge even in exam-oriented English education.

Relative pronouns are one of the biggest hurdles for middle school students learning English.

This example is a past progressive sentence. When you learned the progressive, how were you taught?

Actually, 'have + object + done' is often not causative.

I'd like to ask grammar enthusiasts: can't 'be + participle' be analyzed as V C or something?

She thoroughly drilled the basics of English grammar into her students.

The plural of 'louse' is 'lice.'

'Needless to say' is most often introduced as an idiomatic infinitive expression.

I'm currently teaching basic participial constructions, but how would you all translate the following participial constructions differently?

However, the 'preposition + relative pronoun which' part has become the relative adverb 'where.'

Relative pronouns serve the function of a conjunction plus a pronoun.

A verb refers to the predicate verb. The predicate verb changes its form depending on the subject and the tense it expresses.

The future progressive is used to express actions or events in progress at a future point in time, but the example sentence cannot be considered an action in progress.

In the official workbook, it's explained as 'the present progressive passive.'

Inversion has the effect of emphasizing a sentence by rearranging the order of words.

As a grammar point, it contains the present perfect passive.

There are two types of adjectival use of infinitives: (1) attributive use and (2) predicative use. The latter is of course a subject complement.

'Five minutes' counts as a noun phrase, right?

This kind of construction is called a double negative, and as a result it expresses an affirmative.

The conjugation of irregular verbs — essential for learning English.

The relative pronoun 'that' has two cases — nominative and objective — and has no possessive case.

When the antecedent is 'this,' 'that,' 'these,' or 'those,' it's standard to use 'which.'

Verbs include intransitive verbs that don't take an object and transitive verbs that do.

There are grammar books that call these not 'modifiers' but 'adjuncts (A).'

In progressive sentences, the verb takes the -ing form — that is, the present participle.

Since 'can' is an auxiliary verb, it's moved to the beginning of the sentence in questions.

This sentence is in the present perfect tense. 'Have' is not a verb but an auxiliary verb.

Both of these are what's called 'volitional future,' and they contain the subject's intention.

Temporal adverb clauses (here, 'when') express future events in the present tense.