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Open the doors, I want to get a breeze. The meaning of breeze has a lot of aspects that make it work as an itemizable, separable "thing": breezes can have a start location and an end location bree …

Having been tired of trying, he wants to give up. This is formed correctly - but having been tired of trying I believe is participial phrase - the phrase modifies he wants to give up like an adjecti …

In some languages that assign a gender to all nouns, even these two distinctions don't strongly exist. Yesterday, today, tomorrow can only be replaced by a date. …

Is group (b) above distinct from what's generally referred to as collective nouns Yes. If you can say X is a member of Y, then Y is a collective noun. …

This is right, but plural nouns or noun phrases can "attributively" modify a singular noun. Reference. This is what's happening with both your examples. …

We know that the complements of action verbs can be neither an adjective nor a prepositional phrase, but, it seems that that situation changes for linking verbs Correct. Another term for these i …

This works with proper nouns/names, so the answer to your question appears to be yes. I watched Peter yesterday. I watched Peter Smith yesterday. … As far as whether it's worthwhile to make the distinction between proper nouns and names - I think the below are examples of proper nouns that aren't names: When do you want the assignment done, Professor …

X then Y - then joins clauses, not nouns. So Y can't be noun or gerund, but Y can "recycle" head elements from X which can be elided. E.g. I woke up then showered = I woke up then I showered. …

I've used Google's definitions of stay to provide the below. Many words in English have different, but often related meanings depending on whether they are used as a verb or noun. The gerund will us …

In a turmoil trivializes turmoil. This is going to sound silly - but it's because use of the indefinite article makes it seem like there's a group of "turmoils" just waiting to happen to countries …

You can't have two nouns back-to-back without a conjunction such as and or or. The pattern is almost always this: { Article / determiner } { Adjective } { 2nd adjective, etc. } .... { Noun } …

Generally that is "Subject - Verb - Auxillary - Object" with modifiers possible before or after, and with determiners in front of nouns. …

To be and a few other words including to seem, to become are a type of verb called a copular. Adjectives can follow copulars.

An outfit is a set containing one or more items of clothes that is for a single person to wear. An outfit can have 1 item, such as a dress, or multiple items, such as shoulder pads, helmet, etc. Eve …

If you know what the "thing" is and it's a container, then empty X is the usual way to express it. English doesn't have a general single word for empty container. If you really don't know what X is, …