By Difference between, Predicates

A sentence has subject and predicate, and the sentence gives a complete meaning. On the other hand, a phrase doesn't have subject and predicate, and doesn't give any meaning standing by itself. (E-x) To the door, Going to store, To be sick.

??I want that you clean up your room this instant! It would not surprise me to learn that it was possible in some NAmE Englishes. Some Romance language speaking immigrants may speak it. Quote from Everything2 : The Subjunctive Mood of English After verbs which formerly used the...

Hello people I came across to an idea I had been too much stuck to the Chomskians' interpretation of the SVOO structure. I got another explanation to the question: why the wh-question of 'She gave him the book) in current English) must be 'To who(m) did you give the book?'. It would be simply...

I'm trying to help my 6th grade daughter with verb forms. Can someone define the difference between simple, progressive, and perfect? She's able to find the subject, predicate, and tense but she cannot tell if it's simple, progressive or pefect. The examples I have found on the net indicate...

Yes. That's correct. Linking We are exhausted. (Adjective) 'exhauted' functions as a subject complement, notably a predicate adjective. It's called a "subject" complement because it modifies the subject 'We'. Non-Linking We arrived exhausted. (Adverb) 'exhausted' functions as an adverb. It's...

You're welcome, Malory Here we go now with the new sentences: 1. Compound-complex. 2. Simple (what is compound in that sentence is the predicate, which has two heads or main verbs for the same subject). 3. Complex. 4. Compound-complex. 5. Complex. 6. Complex. 7. Complex. 8....

When the subject is expressed by a group noun it must be agreed with the predicate in the singular or in the plural form? Please, explain the difference between American English and British English. Thank you for your help from Russia.

Thank you a lot for your help, Mirapence. I Appositives vs. Parenthetical Element Do the following examples of non-restrictive appositives act as parenthetical elements?To be more precise, can I call non-restricitive appositives parenthetical elements? Examples: a) Neil Armstrong, the first...