Grammar

When I was walking, I ran into a table and bruised my hip bone.

In some languages, including older English, two adjacent vowels in a word that are pronounced as a single vowel sound are written with a special typographical character called a "diphthong" that incorporates parts of both single vowels.

Yes. This is fairly common in proper nouns, such as United States, Sierra Leone, West Virginia, and Vice President.

The subject is "objects".

can visit can visit Pang only during a short time each summer

The Latin word "mort" or one of its inflected forms, which meant "dead" or "die".

The root word for "remittor" is "remittance," which comes from the Latin word "remittere," meaning "to send back." "Remittor" refers to the person or entity sending the remittance or payment.

No keep/keeps is a verb

One word is not a predicate, a predicate is the verb plus noun or noun phrase.

"Are" is the simple predicate in the sentence "They are unpredictable in their movements." It is the main verb that shows the action or state of being of the subject "they."

The short \a\ sound is "ah" as opposed to the long \a\ where you hear the sound of the letter.

Examples:

fat

act

jam

gas

bad

pad

had

bat

cap

dad

cat

The public behavior of the Roman Emperor Caligula was considered ignoble by traditional Romans.

The root word of "painter" is "paint," which comes from the Latin word "pingere," meaning "to decorate or color."

The root word -lax means loose, slack, or unfastened. It is commonly used in English to form words related to relaxation, loose muscles, or laxatives that help relieve constipation.

The fiestas' paths go past the statues in front of all the inglesias in all the pueblos in the area. To make a foreign noun plural, simply write the noun and follow English rules. The few exceptions are holdovers from Latin. The shortened forms alum and alums have replaced the longer endings. Fact is singular. Facts or data is plural. Foreign words are listed in dictionaries in their singular form. As a result, only by using English plural forms can you find their meaning when they are used in English.

Since no one could be expected to know the plural forms of all foreign languages, no one would be expected to use foreign words using foreign plurals. In fact some foreign plurals would be so different from the base word, they would be impossible to understand.

In a different context this happens in a Spanish-English Dictionary. Irregular preterits are quite different from the main verb and are not in the dictionary. Two reference sources must be searched to find their meaning.

Prepositional phrases work by giving additional information. For example we could write a sentence, The dog ran. Then we could add under the fence. The dog ran under the fence. The dog ran under the fence. The phrase under the fence gives additional information about the word ran. A prepositional phrase can be dropped from a sentence without hurting the sentence. The original form also makes sense.

Some students sometimes get a prepositional phrase confused with an indirect object. It is possible to check that by changing the position.

He gave the book to harry. In that case he is the subject, gave is the verb, book is the direct object and to harry is the indirect object. To harry looks like a prepositional phrase because to can be used as a preposition. In this case it is not. It can be checked by changing the sentence around and seeing if it makes sense.

He gave to harry the book. It works. We change it farther. He gave harry the book.

English is positional. When the indirect object precedes the direct object it does not require a to or something else in front of it.

Now let's add a description to the book.

He gave harry the book with the dark cover. Let's see what happens if we change the position of the phrase.

He gave harry with the dark cover the book. It does not work. Harry does not have a dark cover.

A prepositional phrase modifies a word. It can act like an adjective or an adverb. It can be dropped. It must follow the word it modifies. The dog ran under the fence, across the road, and into the house, carrying the ransom note.

The last phrase is a verbal phrase. It works exactly like a prepositional phrase.

A consonant bend is a vocal technique used in beatboxing where sounds produced from the vocal cords are altered in pitch by manipulating the shape of the mouth and tongue. This creates a bending effect resembling the sound of bending a musical instrument note.

Forty mushers have registered for the 2011 race.

"Peer" is a neutral noun when referring to a person or a common noun more generally when referring to a category not possessing gender, as in "That cafe's desserts have no peer."

The correct phrase would be - Keep the door closed

Yes, in most cases, a comma is used after the word "also" when it is used to introduce a new element in a sentence. However, if "also" is used to modify a verb without separating two independent clauses, a comma is not needed.

Yes, "n'est-ce pas" is a French expression that translates to "isn't it so" in English. It is commonly used at the end of a sentence to seek agreement or confirmation, but it is not as commonly used in English as it is in French.

The correct sentence with subject-verb agreement is: "Peer editing academic papers requires critical-thinking skills and diplomacy." In this sentence, the singular subject "peer editing" agrees with the singular verb "requires."

Yes, the word "labor" can be pluralized as "labors" to refer to multiple instances of work or toil.

No, the word "abbreviate" is a verb meaning to shorten a word or phrase. It does not contain any suffixes.