Wren & Martin Doubts

[siddharthpareek]

Hi I came across this doubt when I was going through the chapter The Adverb exercis 60 in my case.
what the exercise say is that you have to do 3 things.
1) Pick the adverb from the given sentence
2) Classify the modified as Verb, Adverb or Adjective
3) Classify adverb as time, place etc...

Below is the sentence in which I have doubt

He went off on Monday

Do tell me the solution for this in the above given classification

[kewl.bantee]

Originally Posted by siddharthpareek

Hi I came across this doubt when I was going through the chapter The Adverb exercis 60 in my case.
what the exercise say is that you have to do 3 things.
1) Pick the adverb from the given sentence
2) Classify the modified as Verb, Adverb or Adjective
3) Classify adverb as time, place etc...

Below is the sentence in which I have doubt

He went off on Monday

Do tell me the solution for this in the above given classification

the adverb is off.But i couldnt get the next 2 parts of ur ques.hav to check it out in the book and get back to u.

[siddharthpareek]

Originally Posted by Peterson

This is amazing thread. I have a old version of "Wren & Martin's" Book. And i had many problems in that thanks to start this thread i will recall my all problems and will definitely put here to resolve all of them.
Thanks again

Hi Peterson,
it will be great if you can add up to this thread since I was waiting people like you who can make this thread into great use...also i too have old wren n martin...like to hear from you soon then

[ud4u]

first of all thanx for starting such a wonderful thread...
i am going to buy my wren & martin now. will soon be putting my queries soon... thanx again...

[ud4u]

one more thing if some one has soft copy of wren and martin please post the link to download... thanx in advance...

[sasidhar19]

Originally Posted by siddharthpareek

Hi,
Here comes my first problem which I was not able to get hold of The Infinitive.
"
1) They always find fault with me.
2) They always try to find fault with me.

In sentence 1, the verb find has they for its subject; hence the verb find is limited by person & number. We therefore call it a finite verb.

In sentence 2, to find merely names the action denoted by the verb find, and is used without mentioning any subject. It is therefore, not limited by person & number as a verb that has a subject, and is, therefore called the verb Infinite, or simply the Infinitive.
"

Could anyone please explain to mean what is being said above .

here, "they" is the subject and "find" is the verb.....always the verb must agree with its subject in number and person...i.e if the subject is first person(person) and plural(number) then verb also must be first person,plural.....

here,subject is third person,plural so verb also must be third person,plural..
i.e for they----find
if its he -----finds
in the 1st sentence based on the subject verb needs to be changed to find or finds..
in the 2nd sentence verb need not depend on the subject as "to infinitive" is used
for clear understanding lets see a simple sentence below:
1.they love to sing
2.he loves to sing
here "sing" does not depend on the subject only the verb "loves" depend...

similarly to the second sentence you have given
1.they always try to find fault with me.
even if you change the subject from "they" to "he"...."find" remains as it is it doesn't change to "finds"...

hope the doubt is cleared!!!

[DaniBoy]

Hi Siddharth,

At the outset let me thank you for starting the thread.

My doubt is a very primitive one.
Can u please tell me the publisher's name of your copy of W&M, the ones in the book stores are by S.Chand.
Is this the one i should be using?

Regards,
DaniBoy

[siddharthpareek]

Originally Posted by DaniBoy

Hi Siddharth,

At the outset let me thank you for starting the thread.

My doubt is a very primitive one.
Can u please tell me the publisher's name of your copy of W&M, the ones in the book stores are by S.Chand.
Is this the one i should be using?

Regards,
DaniBoy

Hi DaniBoy,
Yeh its S.Chand only....do post your queries if you have .

[DaniBoy]

Thx Siddharth...soon nuff will post my queries...well any tips on W&M usage, like topics to avoid, must do topics,etc.

Regards,
DaniBoy

[siddharthpareek]

Originally Posted by DaniBoy

Thx Siddharth...soon nuff will post my queries...well any tips on W&M usage, like topics to avoid, must do topics,etc.

Regards,
DaniBoy

Well yes I have some of the list with me..will soon post as I do not have right now...but before that some TO DO's :

1) Start with the first part ...do not jump to any other part before that
2) Before doing exercise do all the theory first...it will help a lot
3) If you have got anything wrong try to find a next possible answer without looking the solution...and mark the wrong one's with a pencil so that the next time you do the exercise make sure you should not get wrong the same..nor the other too ..
4) If you face any problem do not keep it pending...since that topic might be used further.