Could someone tell me if my analysis of the following sentences are correct? I'd very much appreciate your help!!! 1. ... } subj asked verb that it..imposed >adjective clause with the relative pronoun 'that' rather..says adverb

1. Noun or noun phrase - yes: 'I ate a (big ham) sandwich.' 2. Pronoun - yes: 'I erased him.' 3. Prepositional phrase - no , not really: in 'I looked at his girlfriend', '(his) girlfriend' is considered the direct object, with the particular

Have you ever tried to work an inadequacy? That's only one parse. It's perfectly grammatical on a different parse. Relative clause formation is an ungoverned rule and therefore can extract and move material from indefinitely far down the

Hello, Guest. Your first sentence is ugly to analyse! ~L~ "Being coined" is the predicate of the noun phrase "the term 'Henmania'", and both constructions together, "the term Henmania being coined", is the direct object of "led to". I think

Hi, Malory. 1. "Preserving rare and valuable books and documents is one of the challenges FACING THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS." The construction in capital letters is a participial clause (present participial); it functions as post modifier of

Right. Or, more precisely, "the Queen's knickers of England". Hohoho. Does not the "clitic" indicate a possessive "form" for the noun as much as for the noun phrase? It can be argued that it indicates that the

You can get rid of the "but the possessive". English ... the noun. The only possessive morphology is in the pronouns. The Queen's knickers and the Queen of England's knickers again, eh? Right. Or, more precisely, "the

An Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:50:29 +0800, sgrìobh Robert Bannister (Email Removed): I don't know other IE languages that can have a prep. + infin. - maybe the Scandinavian languages and other Romance ones. Perhaps speakers of those could indicate

The crux here is that English is not no language is a mere procession of vagaries. We do not pick and choose ... regular feature of the tongue, by divination anew at every need: we apply rule, and rule in language is grammar. Of "my wife and

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