Hi, my grammar guide has tied me up in knots. Can anyone help with the following question?
In the sentence "The last sport I played was football" what function does "was" play? Is it an auxiliary verb? How does it relate to the rest of the sentence?
Thanks in advance.
I think it's like this:
Football was the last sport which i played.
So "was" is a normal full verb in the main clause und you have a relative clause with another verb.
Please correct me if i'm wrong.
Yup.
[My favorite sport] is football.
[The last sport I played] was football.
The part in brackets is the noun phrase, the subject of the sentence.
So "was" is the verb, just like Anon said.