LING 2P10 Study Guide - Final Guide: Adverbial Clause, Independent Clause, Infinitive
19 Mar 2018
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With countable nouns, the word fewer should be used instead of less . She drank less milk than recommended by her doctors vs she had fewer problems with the course material than originally anticipated. Lay = put (ex. to lay her head on my shoulder) vs lie = to rest/sleep (ex. lie in bed) (or, of course, to tell a falsehood) Lay takes a direct object (you need to lay something) but lie does not. Confusion can arise because the past tense of lie is lay but past tense of. With the pronoun everyone , you should use his as the referent instead of their because their is plural while everyone is a singular antecedent. Everyone must have their own book by friday is incorrect vs everyone must have his own book by friday . Historically, his is used to refer to all genders, even if the group that everyone is referring to has females in it.
