" before the school play " is an adverb phrase modifying ' went ' . It is an adverb phrase of time. Yes a clause must have a subject and predicate, but phrase is just a combination of a few words

Would this sentence be considered a complex sentence?? Before the school play, I went over my lines with my dad. "Before the school play" does not have a predicate so is it considered a dependent clause? I thought that all clauses must have

Jamie and Jennifer gave their friends a birthday gift yesterday. identify: sentence type by form and intent the number and types of clauses the function fo the clauses the types and functions of all phrases the subject and predicate of all

AT JOHN 1:1 the King James Version reads: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Trinitarians claim that this means that "the Word" (Greek, ho lo'gos) who came to earth as Jesus Christ was Almighty God

Yes, whl you're right! >>"Learning may be easy, if you are learning from a good teacher, but teaching is work." Verbs in this sentence are: may, be; are, learning; is may & be; are & learning belong together - they build the

Recently, there was a topic that focused on long sentences. Browsing the web the other day, I came across the winners of the 1998 Bad Writing Contest. This extract, from a 1996 book by D.G. Leahy, writing in Foundation: Matter the Body Itself is

I disagree: the American "I got it," meaning 'I have ... that this is the present tense of the verb "got". Don't you think that to call this "got" a "verb" is stretching things a bit?. I mean,

While it was 30/9/03 10:50 pm throughout the UK, Mike Oliver sprinkled little black dots on a white screen, and they fell thus: You're thinking of a "predicate adjective". It seems a little ... a predicate nominative by whether or

While it was 30/9/03 10:50 pm throughout the UK, Mike Oliver sprinkled little black dots on a white screen, and they fell thus: You're thinking of a "predicate adjective". It seems a little circular to say that an adjective is

I don't see why they should ever be thought of ... "theirs" is a predicate adjective. Adjectives all the way around. But the "their" in "their children" and "theirs" in your example sentence have no