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What is the word sucks in " Homework sucks " ? Is it a verb or an adjective? If it is a verb, what does homework suck? This brings up an excellent point, and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English language. The question at hand is " Does an English...

Right. I stopped parsing too soon. thing : direct object of giving back the : definite article modifying thing very : adjective, meaning precise , modifying thing He desired : short for that He desired ; an adjective clause modifying thing

I don’t know why it can’t therefore just as well be concluded that ‘out’, in such constructions, is simply an adverb. I don't know why either. Some authors do call these "particles" adverbs. However, the behavior of a "particle" is a sometimes a bit different from an adverb with regard...

I need a few of the regulars out there to help me out again, could you please check what I've answered so far and tell me if I'm right? If I'm wrong please simply point me in the right direction and I'll try again. Unfortunately questions B and C have stumped me, so I'd be grateful if anyone...

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html Probably no "grammatical error" has received as much scorn as "misuse" of pronoun case inside conjunctions (phrases with two parts joined by is an object that requires object case, it does not mean that is an...

All prepositional verbs take prepositional objects. True. But what do we do with ambi-structural "looked after"? They looked (DO) What evidence is there that speakers don't parse "look after" as a unit and "the sheep" as its direct object? It seems all too neat 'n tidy to lump verbs...

My point was that "looked after" is a prepositional verb, not a phrasal verb as was suggested in the thread. I've been trying to understand the difference. It seems that many people are not aware that there is one. My error, I misunderstood. I know prepositional verbs as inseperable phrasal...

My point was that "looked after" is a prepositional verb, not a phrasal verb as was suggested in the thread. I've been trying to understand the difference. It seems that many people are not aware that there is one. I think this is correct: Prepositional verb Type 1 - np+lexical...

"We'll send you them back" is not a particularly felicitous construction! For the most idiomatic patterns, you'll need one of these: We send the letter to John. We send John the letter. We send it to John. (Not: We send John it.) We send the letter to him. We send him the letter. ...

My guesses: (1) 'Queen' is the fifth noun, acting as an adjective; 'guests' is subject of the dependent clause. (2) Subject preceding verb is normal word order in an affirmative statement. (3) 'Answers' is the head-- it is modified by the other words. (4) In ( a ) 'book' is the...