http://www.englishforums.com/English/GeneralEnglishGrammarQuestions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here.enCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/SentenceAnalysis/gncbw/post.htm#565598Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:06:32 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:565598maria_ey0http://www.englishforums.com/English/SentenceAnalysis/gncbw/post.htm#565598http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-565598.xmli think we can explian &quot;what had&nbsp; seemed an insoluble mystery&nbsp;&quot; as a none sentence <br />&#39;Amanda&#39;s p solutions&#39; is the subject<br />&nbsp; &#39;of what had&nbsp; seemed an insoluble mystery&nbsp;&#39; is a phrase to define or describe it .<br />so &#39;of what had&nbsp; seemed an insoluble mystery&nbsp;&#39; =Adjetive Phrase<div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/SentenceAnalysis/gncrm/post.htmSat, 13 Sep 2008 12:49:24 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:565585Anonymous1http://www.englishforums.com/English/SentenceAnalysis/gncrm/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-565585.xmlI have to analyse the following sentence, but I&#39;m really stuck...<br /><br />&quot;Amanda&#39;s practical solutions of what had seemed an insoluble mystery descended on the family like a balm.&quot;<br /><br />I have to cut this sentence into constituents and cut those up in nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, pronouns, prepositions etc.<br />For now I have this:<br />&#39;Amanda&#39;s practical solutions of what had seemed an insoluble mystery&#39; = the subject of the whole sentence and is a Noun Phrase<br />&#39;descended&#39; = the main verb of the sentence,<br />&#39;on the family&#39; = a Prepositional Phrase<br />&#39;like a balm&#39; = a Prepositional Phrase<br /><br />The two prepositional phrases don&#39;t give me any trouble (both start with a preposition, than have a determiner article and end in a noun). <br /><br />The Noun Phrase is what gives me trouble...<br /><br />&#39;Amanda&#39;s practical solutions of what had seemed an insoluble mystery&#39; has two constituents, I&#39;d say...<br />&#39;Amanda&#39;s practical solutions&#39; = Noun Phrase<br />&#39;of what had seemed an insoluble mystery&#39; = ???<br />I really can&#39;t get beyond this point... How should I analyse this?<br /><br />I really hope someone can help me with this sentence...<div style="clear:both;"></div>