If I were to write that coffee smells good, I wouldn’t hear a word about it. If I wrote that I am happy, Emily seems nice, pizza sounds delicious, liver tastes bad or all men are created equal, none ...

Huddleston and Pullum (2005) write “the verb agrees with the subject” (p. 31), and for quantificational nouns “the form of the verb depends on the … NP [noun phrase] that is complement to the ...

If I were to write that coffee smells good, I wouldn't hear a word about it. If I wrote that I am happy, Emily seems nice, pizza sounds delicious, liver tastes bad or all men are created equal, none ...

“Many older adults said they feel positively about their lives,” the New York Times reported recently. That sentence probably sounds as acceptable to you as it did to the Times editors. But what if ...

(1) a. Everything I don’t eat is food for the dog. b. All I don’t eat is food for the dog. These sentences appear very similar on the surface, but have very different meanings. (1a) means the speaker ...

Look, seem and appear are all copular verbs and can be used in a similar way to indicate the impression you get from something or somebody. Copula verbs join adjectives (or noun compounds) to subjects ...