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Thanks Mr Micawber and Paco. I understand that "treasure island" is a proper noun; but if we consider "adventure stories" as a compound noun (i.e. noun + noun), what about "radio volume"? Some time ago I analysed "radio" as an adjective and you agreed with me. Would you please explain the...

What is the word sucks in " Homework sucks " ? Is it a verb or an adjective? If it is a verb, what does homework suck? This brings up an excellent point, and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English language. The question at hand is " Does an English...

Uhm, I think "Max cleaned it up" is correct. The question here is where we put the object. Am I right?! If a transitive phrasal verb ends with an adverb, we have 3 possibilities! 1. If the object is a noun phrase , you can put it ever before or after the adverb. Example: "Max cleaned up the...

Diamondrg wrote: Can someone explain why "having viewed" is wrong and whether "viewing" and "to have viewed" are correct? The question you are raising may relate to the problem to what extent we can use nonfinite clauses as a post modifier for nouns. This problem is, however, one of the...

There are often optional ways of looking at sentence structure, but here are my opinions: 1. She | tried phoning | his home number, | but | he | didn´t answer. Subject | Verb | Direct object / noun phrase | conj. | subject | verb - Could "but he didn´t answer" be a clause?-- YES,...

Vorpar, I'm afraid I hold a different view with respect to your answer to the first sentence, (1) I went on a writing course. In analysing words for their word classes, we consider not only their forms but also, most crucially, the functions that they perform in the sentences or contexts...

Hi I understand "anytime" is a word proper to AmE. In OED, there is no entry for "anytime". OED contains 466 quotes using "any time" but only 9 quotes using "anytime". I believe the most formal expression in BrE is "Call me at any time". But "Call me any time" is also possible. In English, time...

And hello yet again, Hela! In the sentences in your first post there is only one adjective phrase: "very little", in sentence # 3. An adjective phrase is a construction that has an adjective as its "head" (the most important word. In "very little", "little" is the head -it's an adjective-...

Dear teachers, Would you please help me to solve this problem? Example 1 : I have been looking for you everywhere. "Parsing" = sentence analysis (correct use ?) Form + Function : I = Noun Phrase = subject have been looking = Verb Phrase = transitive verb for you = Prepositional Phrase you =...

Welcome to English Forums! The definition you quote seems to be using the terminology of transformational grammar, because it uses the term "constituent". This is in contrast to the terminology of so-called "traditional grammar" in many cases. 1. In transformational grammar, an adverb...