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Categories or Parts of Speech he pronoun he noun phrase NP is verb a article nice adjective person noun a nice person noun phrase NP is a nice person verb phrase VP These designations come from a system of analysis called transformational grammar Functions he subject is copula a determiner nice...

Anonymous wrote Hi quick question In the sentence that follows what part of speech tense gerund present progressive or grammatical role subject verb is loving and why Furthermore what grammatical role is someone and why Essentially what do you make of this sentence It sounds a bit odd to my...

In the relative clause it s actually the relative pronoun that that you re interested in right all that I have had to do that is the direct object of do in the most straight forward reading that is assumed if omitted of course But there is ambiguity and that could also be the direct object of...

To go home is considered by Quirk et al A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language 16 66 as the clausal direct object of tell with him the indirect object That makes it a noun I tell him something What do you tell him I tell him to go home

the right to keep a secret noun phrase subject to keep a secret infinitive and its direct object used adjectivally with the right I interpret it as Her privacy being indispensable to her the right to keep a secret does not matter to me Since her privacy is indispensable to her the right to keep a...

Than ought to be used as either a demonstrative pronoun or a conjunction In the sentence Jessica is prettier than me it is being used as a conjunction This conjunction usually occurs after a comparative adjective or adverb In this case it occurs after better which is a comparative adjective...

I think you have got your terms mixed up Anon Separating a subject from its verb is in no way exceptional in English as Clive has already shown you What I think you mean is separating a verb from its object which does happen in some cases but is often objectionable In English one should say I met...

While we rarely see even before a direct object especially when it s the pronoun it there is nothing grammatically wrong with it CJ

lt I would be interested to see quotations from the early English grammarians that presented spoken English as somehow inferior or that demonstrated an imposition of inappropriate rules from Latin gt Do you doubt that was the case If so I guess you disagree with this If they have studied English...

Hi Clive Thanks for your attention I see My question was Bob someone s name is the same as the personal pronoun he when used in the beginning of sentences Example Bob is a good student Bob personal pronoun He But when it appears after a verb as an indirect object for example The gift hasn t been...