In Nouns^x, Predicates^x

What do you think about a gerund phrase The gerund is being Abuse is a noun predicate object

basically nom pronouns are either the subject or a predicate noun and an objective pronoun is in the predicate usually as an do io or and op

1 Yes the difference between a complex noun phrase and a simple one is that the complex noun phrase will contain at least one dependent clause 2 That s one of the ways of identifying noun clauses It isn t always east though as you have just implied Sometimes form alone won t be enough and you...

What you call your attempt is almost perfect Eddie You re good at grammar One minor correction I d made would be the category acting as subject it is a clause not a phrase It has a verb even if not a finite form and it has modifiers for that verb as it the whole construction were a predicate...

Hello Eddie Sorry about yesterday I typed a long answer to your question about the noun clause but when I hit post I was taken to a page that told me to come back later because the forums were down sort of due to maintenance I waited for almost half an hour and then left And I hoped my answer...

By the way he also asked me where does John live I suppose it could be a noun clause if it were embedded as quoted speech To love is to die and to be loved is to be the one destroyed There are many infinitives used as nouns subject amp predicate To love subject is main verb to die predicate noun...

Well my best guess is that seem horrifying is an infinitive phrase with the infinitive marker to omitted Horrifying present participle of the verb horrify modifies life as a predicate adjective following the linking verbal seem Life is the subject of the infinitive Their petrified faces subject...

Their petrified faces make the life of a sailor seem horrifying Can you please see if my analysis of the above sentence is correct please Analysis of the whole sentence Their petrified faces subject noun phrasemake main verbthe life of a salor seem horrifying object noun phraseAnalysis of the...

When I get a sticky question I simplify it down to its bare essentials The simplest sentence is This subject is verb ice cream predicate noun Expanding to approach your example What we want is ice cream What we want is a clause used as a noun It is the subject of the verb is Next step What we...

quote user Eddie88 function as an object of a preposition or function as a complement which a noun phrase can quote A that clause where that is a complementizer is most often used as a direct object but it can also be used as a subject or as a predicate nominative The reason is that he didn t...