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Welcome to English Forums! "people" is plural, so you need "oppose", not "opposes". No comma between a subject and predicate. "biased" is a past participle acting as an adjective. Verb tenses don't enter into it. People who oppose the pronoun 'they' can argue that 'they' has a root...

Hi, Paco, You've raised THE question/point that has been troubling me these days, i.e., in some cases, should we consider some adjectives as subject complements or adverbials ? Greenbaum and Quirk admit that there are ambiguous situations sometimes but they do not really settle in favour of...

Hello Roh I'm sorry I misaddressed you. I thought you might be my old friend Roro/Viogner who once posted here a lot. Anyway it doesn’t matter whether you are she or not. Personally I'm interested in the concept of "ergative" just to learn English. Some transitive verbs are rarely used in...

Well, there are the copulative verbs (to be, to become, to seem ...); they have a predicate, not a Direct Object or an attribute adjective. But there are verbs that semantically express a non-action: to stay, to sleep, etc... What is the context of your "non-action verbs"? Grammar?

Hello Anon Thank you for the reply. Are you asking why I ask your thought? It's because you said in the post 145815 that you would read "alive" as an object complement. The reason I am saying that "alive" is not a usual object complement is that the sentence can make sense even if we...

What you have here is a classic compound sentence: two independent clauses separated by a coordinating conjunction ( and ). Each of the two independent clauses has a subject (noun phrase) and a predicate (verb phrase + verb object). The predicate of the second clause also includes an...

Jack112 wrote: Sorry for my lack of understanding. Could you give me a few more examples as to how to distinguish between them? 1. I have never had more girlfriends than I have now. (Correct) 2. I have never had more girlfriends than I do now. (Is this one correct as well? How...

I need help with subject and verbs and prepositional phrases and predicates and complete subjects.

A sentence with a linking verb never has a direct object, however, so you are wrong about that part of it. A linking verb links a subject to a (predicate) noun or (predicate) adjective, not to a direct object. You must have a transitive verb to have a direct object. "to be" is not transitive,...

What are they mean? 1) hypotactic clause Is it a dependent clause or main clause? 2) delected functional element? 3) deontic modal 4) cicumstantial clause Is it an adverb clause of place? 5) anticipatory subject Is it the word "it" when it used as grammatical subject...