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quote user Eddie88 Hi The average illegal patient is 25 years old giving birth to her second anchor baby Is giving birth to her second anchor baby a present particple phrase Yes Secondly to be grammatically correct does it need to have a comma separating it from the sentence Not necessarily It s...

quote user Specter I wanted to know if the underlined word functions as an adjective or adverb He escaped unharmed quote It functions as both This construct is called Take a deep breath a subject oriented depictive secondary predication The primary predication here is that he escaped The...

who takes the case subject object in the dependent clause I know the person to whom the book is dedicated object case I know the person who gave the dedication subject case I know the person whom the police arrested object case The person whom the police arrested is going to be freed tomorrow...

Welcome to English Forums It s an imperative sentence the subject being you understood Give is a verb present tense second person singular or plural the simple predicate of the sentence yearbook is a noun the direct object of the verb whoever is a pronoun subject of the dependent clause whoever...

quote user Avangi Hi sd15 Welcome to the English Forums I m afraid all our gurus have gone home for the night I agree there s no grammatical justification for the comma and I agree that you have a compound predicate I d take the comma as an optional stylistic pause Would that be semantic If you...

Hello Bino quote there should always be some kind of punctuation mark between coordinate clauses quote This is generally right but yours are not coordinate clauses because the second has no subject and we cannot punctuate once though we can do so twice between S and V It s a little tricky here...

It is a bit clearer when you add the missing words The long tailed monkeys are more intelligent than the short tailed monkeys are intelligent There is a main clause and a subordinate clause The subordinate clause is also S V C but in the abbreviated form the predicate is implicit not explicit...

ANon What you have here is a sentence with two main clauses It has 2 subjects John he and 2 verbs faced remained The 2 clauses are joined by the conjunction but Here are examples of predicate nouns John is a manager The predicate noun is manager Mary used to be our baby sitter The predicate noun...

You have made some very complex sentences so it is not easy to explain without a lot of detail Here is my analysis of the grammar in the second sentence I am not an expert in grammar so I invite other members of the forum to comment It pronoun subject is main verb probably adverb modifying...

Thanks richard I m not sure if I ll live long enough to learn the correct terminology for these things I guess I always assumed the predicate portion of a relative clause remained unscathed that is followed the same rules that would apply to an independent clause That is the vase which fell in...