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Hi 1 Is the underlined part a noun It s a noun phrase ie a phrase that gives more information about the noun people Is there possibly an ellipted to at work Yes you could say to make people proud What she has done is make people proud of who whom they are Say who 2 Can we have an adjective act as...

actually one thing I d really miss is the noun phrase acting as the subject of the sentencethe verb is

Hello I tried to see your diagrams and ı couldn t find anything wrong with the second one As for the first one it is really difficult to read the elements but I will do it like this butter and cheese double noun phrases with butter and cheese prepositional phrase sandwiches with butter and cheese...

As I said in your prior post the first is not a sentence It s just a noun phrase What is it being used for As you requested the lamp was delivered to Mr X s office Please note that as instructed cost for the lamp was charged to the SER project I m guessing at the significance of saying it was for...

Hello Anon It s not a sentence but looks more like a bullet format since it s just a noun phrase with no predicate Supply and installation of new vinyl flooring as per the sample approved by the client

I think it would be useful for students to understand how these constructions relate to simpler sentence patterns but I haven t found a rationale for classifying them As I said other substitutions imply that my last examples are predicate adjectives e g He seems to be the owner gt He seems in...

Actually I do classify some infinitive phrases that follow the verbs seem and appear as subject complements I m not totally comfortable with that view so I like to consider other options Also I m not fluent in Chinese but I think that there is an important difference between its verb verb...

Hi Now does it make sense to you Is that technical semantically close to practical Well it s better than technological But I much prefer practical Then you don t think an awakening of the imagination is really a noun phrase in apposition the restatement of the great revelation of science Yes I do...

quote user Clive Hi I have to say that I find it a bit odd to suggest as this seems to that our mental actvity involves technological challenges quote Oops It was technical not technological Sorry I ve fixed it Now does it make sense to you Is that technical semantically close to practical quote...

You may want someone else to respond for a change but let me say that my prime concern when considering hyphenation is whether the hyphen is needed to make sense of the relationship of the two nouns between themselves and within the context of the greater noun phrase