In Definite articles^x, Possessives^x

"Treasure Island" is one of the best known and most loved children’s adventure stories. PARTS OF SPEECH: 1 "Treasure Island"=proper noun (phrase), 2 is= copular verb, 3 of=preposition, 4 one=pronoun, 5 the=definite article, 6 best=adverb, 7 known=attributive adjective (past participle), 8...

Dear friends, Would you please have a look at the parsing below. I'm just picking up sentences and trying to analyse them for future exams. Treasure Island is one of the best known and most loved children ’s adventure stories. PARTS OF SPEECH: treasure = descriptive adj....

1) My little brother would not turn down the radio volume in the morning. MY = possessive adjective LITTLE = DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE BROTHER = noun WOULD = modal auxiliary NOT = NEGATIVE PARTICLE TURN = main verb DOWN = adverb particle THE =...

Dear teachers, Would you please tell me if my analysis is correct ? 1) My little brother would not turn down the radio volume in the morning. MY = possessive adjective LITTLE = determinative adjective (quantifier) BROTHER = noun WOULD = modal auxiliary NOT = ?? TURN = main verb...

I agree with pieanne on the hyphen. The possessive in the second one is awfully strange to me. Where did you come across (not 'come over') that? As for omitting the indefinite article: offer an example where you think it might be unnecessary.

I presume you mean no indefinite article 'a' either, Elviajero? That leaves us with: (1) unspecified plurals: 'I love cats'; (2) nouns modified by a possessive, demonstrative, quantifier, etc: 'some/my/this/those cat/cats. They are likely to be some other cases that I have forgotten.

The woman is a TV reporter who is standing in the hotel elevator. There's nothing wrong with this sentence. "Detective: I'm looking for two suspects: one is a man; the other, a woman. Here are their photos. Have you seen them? Helpful Janitor: Sure. The man is an executive who is...

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...

These are my thoughts on the structure...Please feel free to comment adversely. The underlying structure of the 'normal' form is: e.g. 1a. 'It is too difficult a question to answer.' 2a. 'He is too easy a goalkeeper to beat.' 3a. 'That looks too hard a knot to untie.' 4a. 'Mine...

Dave, First of all, and even when everyone is surely aware of this, I must insist that even when I believe my knowledge of the English grammar is good, I'm not a grammarian or a linguist. It would be completely absurd for me to try and analyse a language that is not even my own in depth when I...