ESL General English Grammar Questions

Re: sentence analysis

Inchoateknowledge — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:31:14 GMT

thanks

Re: sentence analysis

milky — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:21:33 GMT

This is the definition of a coordinate clause. Does it fit with your example above?

Definition
	A coordinate clause is a clause belonging to a series of two or more clauses which
	are not syntactically dependent one on another, and are joined by means of a coordinating conjunction a connective, or parataxis.

Examples (English)

I will go home and he will go to work.
John likes hamburgers, but Mary prefers hot dogs.
We might go to Seattle, or we might go to California.

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsACoordinateClause.htm

Re: sentence analysis

CalifJim — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:21:30 GMT

Coordinate clause? What is your definition of this term?

Adverbs of place answer the question where?

Except for coordinate clause, I agree with you on the analysis.

CJ

sentence analysis

Inchoateknowledge — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:04:02 GMT

The police questioned every person who lived in the neighbourhood.

The police questioned every person = coordinate clause.
'questioned' here is finite verb.
'The police' = subject
'every person' = object, and noun phrase
'every' = adjective (noun qualifier)
'who lived in the neighbourhood' = subordinate clause
'who' = relative pronoun
'lived' = finite verb,
'in the neighbourhood' = prepositional phrase
'the neighbourhood' = noun phrase
'neighbourhood' = noun,
How do we call the sentence element that answers the question: where?

My second question is: Do you agree with my statements?