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Anonymous  #185196  Wed, 18 Jan 06 08:35 AM

Which is the correct answer regarding the syntactic analysis of the following sentence:

Nothing could prevent him from climbing that dangerous peak.

1 Subject, Predicate, Direct Object, Prepositional Object, Direct Object

2 Subject, Predicate, Indirect Object, Prepositional Object, Direct Object

3 Subject, Predicate, Indirect Object, Prepositional Object Clause, Direct Object

4 Subject, Predicate, Direct Object, Prepositional Object Clause

 

and

Which is the correct answer regarding the syntactic analysis of the following sentence:

The reports were believed false.

1 Subject, Predicate, Predicative Adjunct (Subject Complement)

2 Subject, Copula BE, Predicative-AP, Adverbial of Manner

3 Subject, Predicate, Adverbial of Manner

4 Subject, Predicate, Attribute

 

and

Choose the only predicate out of the following list that can only take one NP argument: be tall, believe, be afraid, persuade

1 be tall

2 believe

3 be afraid

4 persuade

I think is believe here but i am not so sure.

  
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