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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 garden or Max...

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 subjects least...

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 it is an independent clause this is a compound...

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 in which they...

HiI 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 adverbial noun...

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 and the adverb very is a...

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 object of the prep for everywhere...

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 like certainly is an...

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 Noun...

Hello K O That looks good here s a little more detail Clause 1 We subject were spared passive voice past tense the storm s fury noun phrase object the storm s possessive fury direct object Clause 2 but coordinating conjunction now adverb are having modal verb present continuous to deal with...