Which kind what kind grammar

If or whether? Ill or sick? Imply or infer? In the way or on the way? Late or lately? Lay or lie? Lend or borrow? Less or fewer? Look at , see or watch? Low or short? Man , mankind or people? Maybe or may be?

Maybe or perhaps? Nearest or next? Never or not … ever? Nice or sympathetic? No doubt or without doubt? No or not? Nowadays , these days or today? Open or opened? Opportunity or possibility? Opposite or in front of? Other , others , the other or another? Out or out of? Permit or permission? Person , persons or people? Pick or pick up? Play or game? Politics , political , politician or policy? Price or prize?

Principal or principle? Quiet or quite? Raise or rise? Remember or remind? Right or rightly? Rob or steal? Say or tell? So that or in order that? Sometimes or sometime? Sound or noise? Speak or talk? Such or so? Towards or toward? Wait or wait for? Wake , wake up or awaken?

Worth or worthwhile? Noun phrases: dependent words Noun phrases: order Noun phrases: uses Noun phrases: noun phrases and verbs Noun phrases: two noun phrases together. Pronouns: possessive my , mine , your , yours , etc. Pronouns: reflexive myself , themselves , etc. Pronouns: indefinite - body , - one , - thing , - where Pronouns: one , you , we , they Relative pronouns Questions: interrogative pronouns what , who Someone , somebody , something , somewhere That.

Dates Measurements Number Time. Geographical places Names and titles: addressing people Nationalities, languages, countries and regions Place names. Reported speech Reported speech: direct speech Reported speech: indirect speech. British and American English Dialect Double negatives and usage Formal and informal language Newspaper headlines Register Slang Standard and non-standard language Swearing and taboo expressions. Past simple I worked Past continuous I was working Past continuous or past simple?

Past simple or present perfect? Used to Past perfect simple I had worked Past perfect continuous I had been working Past perfect simple or past perfect continuous? Past perfect simple or past simple? Past verb forms referring to the present Past: typical errors.

Present continuous I am working Present perfect continuous I have been working Present perfect simple I have worked Present perfect simple or present perfect continuous? Present perfect: typical errors Present simple I work Present simple or present continuous? Present: typical errors Present verb forms referring to the past.

Finite and non-finite verbs Imperative clauses Be quiet! Infinitives with and without to Infinitive: active or passive? Perfect infinitive with to to have worked Verbs: basic forms Verbs: formation. Hate , like , love and prefer Hear , see , etc. However, your second sentence only sounds odd to me. Hi, This construction to me sounds as if the speaker is being mildly sarcastic. There is a difference between: What kind of car is that?

What kind of a car is that? Hi Phoo Which dictionary are you using? Did all of your sentences come from your dictionary? Do you know any good grammar sites on line? He is a kind of a catch as a lover.

Like what Yankee said, I would use: 1. His discourse is now more detailed: submission, which is the meaning of islam in Arabic, gives him a kind of enjoyment. When I was in Holland, this is the kind of thing people feared. He appeared to understand however belatedly that he was in the presence of another kind of greatness.

Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall. The relation existing between the balmy plant and the commerce of the world is of the strongest kind. What he has done in any one species or distinct kind of writing would have been sufficient to have acquired him a great name. I tell you, madam, most distinctly and emphatically, that it is bread pudding and the meanest kind at that.

In addition to the idiom beginning with kind. New Word List Word List. Save This Word! British Dialect. See synonyms for kind on Thesaurus. See antonyms for kind on Thesaurus.