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Hi, You will see them practicing their sports with their fingers tied. Using the grammar terms I learned, I'd call this an adjectival phrase, describing 'them'. Thank you, Clive. Can you please tell me how I can know if some phrase like "practicing their sports with their fingers tied" is...

Anonymous wrote:Hi, TEO, What is NP? I googled it for grammar and thousands of refrences come up. They all assume, as you do, that we know what it is! Thanks for your reply. Hi Anon, NP = noun phrase. What Teo answers to his own question is that spend time on + noun phrase is an...

It -- Swill make-- Vthem-- DOwise-- Object ComplementThe topic of complements is a broad and complex one, but here is a good basic introduction from an on-line source:Complement A complement is used with verbs like be, seem, look etc. Complements give more information about the...

All of your examples are gerunds if we stick to modern terminology. Forget about the terminology verbal noun. It's total garbage! It has many different definitions, depending on the author and when the grammar book was written. _____________ The modern definition is given at...

1-- It looks like an adjective phrase-- or a very truncated adjective clause (no S and no V): my own school, gasping for air....3-- My rationale was that I felt it made it more immediately clear for the reader that 'question-writing' is a single specific task more specific than just 'writing...

Categories or Parts of Speech he - pronoun he - noun phrase (NP)* is - verb a - article nice - adjective person - noun a nice person - noun phrase (NP)* is a nice person - verb phrase (VP)* *These designations come from a system of analysis called 'transformational...

Sabyakgp wrote: Thanks for the reply Feebs11, I have gone through the document, But I would like to know should a noun be preceeded by the definite aritcle If a noun is premodified.For example:The General Electric CompanyBut Not: The Microsoft CorporationThere are many such examples where the...

According to prescriptive grammar:Subject + verb + as if/though + verb phrase. (I feel as if I am to blame.)Subject + verb + like + noun phrase. (I feel like a fool.)

so, the forefathers mispunctuated the 2nd amendment when they wrote: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. in this case, the right of the people to keep and bear arms is the noun...

Hi, I know this may seem so simple, but i just am not getting it. What kind of phrase is " the right to keep a secret" in this sentence? "Her privacy, being indispensable to her, the right to keep a secret, does not matter to me." This is not correctly punctuated. The commas that I have marked...