In Adverbs^x, Nominative^x

Hello Yes, you're right. If I'm forced to group the infinitive "to go home" from the standpoint of syntactic sentence patterns into one of "nominative use", "adjectival use" and "adverbial use, I would choose "nominative use". But, from the semantic standpoint, "to go home" seems to me to...

Hello everyone, I like to do sentence analyses, so if you could sometimes send us some exercises on the matter they will be very welcome. A/ Here is MY analysis: 1) She is so pretty a girl. a) parts of speech: she = nominative personal pronoun is = fintie verb so = adverb of...

Yes, exactly. And what a pleasure it is to be able to discuss this issue with you, MrP. I appreciate your style. Your posts provide delectable food for thought for a healthy discussion. It's truly an immovable feast. Thank you. I more than agree that there's a problem with the tutor's claim,...

I’m not a teacher, and oh my goodness, now I know why English teachers are worth their salt. I just can’t explain this in a simple way! I thought this question would be easy to answer but it’s not easy at all. Just because a word is commonly used and short doesn’t guarantee that it’s easy to...

Hello! What's up? Hope every1's fine. Now, the reason I posted... My cruel, evil (but okay) teacher gave me some homework and I can't figure out one problem: 1- In the sentence: "The charge for the repair work on the car was very low.", the phrase "for the repair work" is prepositional,...

Normally a bunch of us go out to lunch together, but today, there are only two people, Bob and me. Which would be more appropriate to say? a) Today, it is just Bob and I. or b) Today, it is just Bob and me. Normally, I would say the former because "Bob and I" should be the predicate...

In this case, would "just" be the adverb and "I" the predicate nominative, or, "just me" be the adverb phrase modifying "it"? Are both legal forms?