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You are confusing sentence 1 with the need in your mind for the structure of sentence 2. But sentence 1 is complete in itself. If the question is asked, "Where is John?" An appropriate and complete sentential response would be "He left." Not "He left the party"...

AvangiYou are right. I stand corrected. The predicate as opposed to the attributive. I meant "is a rock music icon" is the main theme of this sentence which the writer wanted to state, despite its subject being a mile long. Thanks for pointing it out.So, in the long run, if someone...

Hi, jm.Getting closer. The captioned phrase cannot be a clause because it has no subject. As CJ says, it's the predicate. Just as in the case of a simple sentence, a clause must have both a subject and a verb (predicate). There's one of them in your sentence: "which employs the...

In short, neither nor: Decide according to the last pronoun and in your example it should be "is". Both and: Always use plural which is "are" in your example.

Hi, When she was 16-years-old a 16-year-old is a noun. 16 years old (ie no hyphens) is an adjectival phraseshe ran away (preposition) from home and moved to London, then (adverb) New York to work as (adverb) a nurse. During (preposition) her time in New York, she kept in contact with...

My approach owes more to the concepts of transformational grammar, so I would sayhim doing his job every day is a non-finite clause used as the object of think of.Within that clause him is the pronoun subject, doing is the verb, his job is the noun object, and every day is adverbial. CJ

Yes, as far as who is concerned. What is something else. It never has an antecedent as a relative pronoun, neither singular nor plural, nothing, and that's why a singular verb is used with it. This is obvious from the singular that, which occurs in that which, which is sometimes used to...

It seems to me that the relative adverb and the prepositional phrase with the relative pronoun as object (in which) are completely interchangeable here. But "where" is clearly not a conjunction.I think "in which" is more common. I think of "where" in explaining...

<<< Goodman, you are changing the pronoun. In your sentence of course make. However, what as a relative pronoun is always singular:>>> And so is who! s what is the difference? No I am not changing anything. I just want to prove a point. The approach to treat "what"...

Of course it disagrees with are because it has nothing to do with it. The subject of makes is the relative pronoun what. According to most dictionaries, Webster's among them, fruit can be used as a collective plural. If are is wrong with it, what plural verb form of to be do you suggest?CB