And so she doesn't reply in words but is, for a moment silent, and only replies to Geoff's question by shaking her head. It is in the sense of "shocked to silence" that Sophie is "chastened".

Nov 4, 2022 · The truth is that all options are syntactically valid - it's just that as @Geoff points out below, it's not easy to come up with a context where having worked would work (in a way that …

Nov 30, 2016 · How to distinguish between American Indians and Indian Indians in native English (language) parlance? Can I say Indian Indian to say Indian from Asia compared to the Native …

Dec 19, 2016 · I was reading an article on modifiers [citation needed], but some of the sentences confused me. 1) Slender and graceful, her eyes filling with tears, Brenda completed her …

Nov 25, 2015 · 7 As an antidote do all the people saying 'group is singular, therefore you should use is ', here's a Language Log post by Geoff Pullum arguing against plural agreement for …

May 24, 2015 · What's the correct pronunciation of the name Geoff? Is it like "Jeff" or more like "GEE-off" or something else?

Feb 28, 2017 · I'm wondering the following conversations, extracted mostly from a comedic video at the following timestamps links: a,In this one it says you walk, no you say, but it's similar …

If the subjects of the main clause and the subordinate clause are the same, we could simplify "such that" to "such as to", for example 1a Her voice was such that it …

Jan 28, 2023 · As a non-native speaker I’m struggling with how to order the clauses in the following sentence: Because I, as a graduate of a vocational college and as someone who has …

I got how to inverte sentences with so but I ask this question in order to make it conformed that inverting sentences with such does not work in the same way exactly. For example: They were...