Confusing Grammar in English | Lesson for Advanced Learners

Grammar can be really confusing because sometimes the rules just don't make much sense. In this lesson, I want to test your grammar knowledge with some challenging questions. This quiz was taken from a live-lesson that I did a while back, and I've shorted it by condensing the questions along with my explanation of the answers.
The quiz is for advanced learners, and my hope is that you will learn something new after watching the lesson. Because if you understand this confusing grammar, it means that you're a step closer to English fluency.
Let me know in the comments how you did on the quiz. Good luck!
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Thank you for this video! If I may add some more examples: to accept vs. except advice vs. to advise apart vs. a part altogether vs. all together (to) assent vs. ascent eminent vs. imminent vs. immanent council vs. to counsel illicit vs. to elicit to precede vs. to proceed quote vs. quotation stationary vs. stationery reluctant vs. reticent principal vs. principle already vs. all ready Best regards, Anna PS: As for the noun “advice”, maybe you could mention and explain with which verbs it is commonly used, e.g., to give/provide/hand out/accept/ask for, etc. Many thanks!

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As per Oxford Dictionary : NONE OF : When you use NONE OF with an uncountable noun,the verb is in the singular:none of the work was done. When you use NONE OF with a plural noun or pronoun,or a singular noun referring to a group of people or things, you can use either a singular or plural verb. None of the trains is/are going to London. None of her family has/have been to college. So , none of the bananas is / are ripe .

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It is correct to say "None of the bananas is ripe." In this sentence, "none" is an indefinite pronoun that is treated as singular, even though it refers to a group of things (in this case, bananas). Therefore, the verb that follows it should also be singular. The verb "is" agrees in number with "none," and it is correct to use the singular form of the verb "to be" in this sentence.

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Thanks so much🌹 + Can we say "leave for somewhere" and "laugh at it" or not?

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Hi Wes.. Lets start..am taking this live test 1 Frustrated.. 2 I'll 3 further....to improve 4 are 5 raggedy blue basketball 6 3 (wrong) didn't get it 7 have been waiting 8 they will..it seems right to me that's why 9 join 10 ..I got many wrong in this question

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Leave from but also leave for somewhere. Is it also possible in this sentence?

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Gustav has a question: Why is the answer "I get so frustrated" when the verb is in present tense but the adjective is in the past? Frustrated has an -ed ending so he thinks it's in the past. -Ing endings don't exist as verbs tenses in German but he knows that in English -ing is a present tense. I don't know how to answer that question, I don't know why we native English speakers say "I am frustrated right now." He didn't know how to ask. He's too preoccupied by something going on, over which we have no control. We SHOULD have - the person is our child/stepchild, but we don't FTR I have days where I do worse at German for no obvious reason. So it's not only because infra emotional distress.

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Hi Vicki. He should just think of them as adjectives. There are different sets, -ed adjectives and -ing adjectives (frustrated/frustrating; bored/boring; excited/exciting). Then just try to remember the rules that -ed adjectives describe the way a person feels and -ing adjectives describe a thing or situation. 👍

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@@InteractiveEng Adjectives aren't in past or present, are they? I wasn't sure of this lesson myself; I mean it was hard even for me, so it really was advanced. Some of it I can't remember learning until I was in college, taking Written & Oral English Communication as a Minor.

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