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Dear teachers, chemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />>> Sorry to bother you but I would be very grateful if you could help me analyze the following sentences. Sometimes some sentence elements appear ambiguous to me and I don’t know how to analyze them. Have you got a clue which would help me...

A sentence may take the form of a single clause or be formed from several clauses. The typical clause has a noun phrase for a subject and a verb phrase for a predicate. The verb phrase may have another noun phrase or two embedded within it which serves as direct object or indirect object. ...

Hello Roro OED says about the etymology of "cost" as follows. a. OF. coster, couster (mod. coûter) = Pr. and Sp. costar, Pg. custar, It. costare:—L. constôre to stand together, stand firm, abide, be settled or fixed, stand at a price, cost, f. con- together + stôre to stand. The construction...

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...

To be honest, I'm not all that convinced myself that 'refused' is 'coplular' (is that the correct term even?). A tried 'n true test--passivization--offers up conflicting results. The expectation, I believe, is that linking verbs when passivized generate ungrammaticality, and yet our example does...

He swallowed a lot of new questions which had just occured to him, and looked instead at the thousands of narrow boxes piled neatly right to the ceiling. He | swallowed ... and looked (instead) subject | verbs joined by a conjunction (adverb) swallowed | a lot of new questions verb | complement...

I'm concerned that there may be a misunderstanding with regard to terminology. If your son needs to assign a "part of speech" to each word, his choices, according to many classifying schemes, are: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection, ... The following are not...

Both are correct. There is no difference in meaning between the two, but there is a slight difference in what is being emphasized. "Send your letters to me." The emphasis is on what ought to be sent. In this sentence, "your letters" is the object of the verb "send", and "to me" is a...

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...

Close. I = subject hope = INTRANSITIVE verb - requires no object (that) you appreciate our offering (you) this position = ADVERB clause Inside the adverb clause, that = preposition you appreciate our offering (you) this position = VERB clause Inside the verb clause you = subject appreciate =...