By Grammar, Noun phrases

Please read: a.The government has pointed out the bad effect certain drugs have on people and has decided to effect new laws to restrict the sale of these drugs. (1) b.The government has pointed out that certain drugs have a bad effect on people and has decided to effect new laws to restrict the...

Please read: a.The government has pointed out the bad effect certain drugs have on people and has decided to effect new laws to restrict the sale of these drugs. (1) b.The government has pointed out that certain drugs have a bad effect on people and has decided to effect new laws to restrict the...

If it contains either a finite or nonfinite verb, then it is a clause and not a phrase; here I was considering loving a gerund.Loving her, I forgot my other pastimes. -- this is obviously a clause (a nonfinite adverbial one)Loving was my favorite pastime. -- this is obviously a gerund (a...

Isn't "to have met you" a noun phrase (an infinitive phrase)? A clause requires a finite verb, and an infinitive ("to have") is a nonfinite verb. Anyway, "to have met you" modifies the adjective "glad", so I guess it could be seen as a kind of adverb. Unfortunately, these grammatical terms can...

I can’t help but have to put in my two cent’s worth. I completely see it the same way as Aperisic. When we use participles, we have to understand it’s function within the phrase. When the participle within the phrase describes “when”, “where”, “how”and “what” etc. it’s an adverbial phrase, not...

I walked into that reading-room a happy healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.(from Three men in a boat -- to say nothing of the dog! by J.K. Jerome) I've been thinking, without any doubt, that these noun phrases in navy blue above are subject complements.I've just found, though, that my...

In transformational grammar, there are noun phrases (NPs), adjective phrases (APs), verb phrases (VPs), adverb phrases (ADVPs), and prepositional phrases (PPs). In each, the main noun, adjective, verb, adverb, or preposition is called the head. The main noun of an NP is the head of the NP,...

CalifJim wrote:"Noun phrase" is a term from linguistics, in particular, transformational grammar. "Noun clause" is not normally used in linguistics. It is a term from traditional grammar.A noun phrase is a group of words in which a noun or pronoun is the head. A single noun by itself can be a...

I have desperately been looking for a good book on grammar. I don not mean the practical grammar in use, but a book on grammar as an element of the linguistic system. It should contain topics like: syntactic units syntactic relations syntactic functions verb phrases morphological...

Hello KhoffI take it the first question you raised is related to the issue of subject-verb concord (or agreement). The subject-verb concord in English is really tough to acquire for me, a Japanese, whose mother tongue has no distinction in verbal forms for singular and plural subjects. My grammar...