I made her sad. I (S) made (V) her (Direct Object) sad (Object Complement). I made her cry. I (S) made (V) her (Direct Object) cry (?? I don't think verbs can be complements, right? What might it be, then?). Another thing - what

Due to a lack of inflections and other grammatical and lexical devices, nouns are very often used as adjectives in English. There is nothing wrong with your example. Other examples of nouns used adjectivally: a London theatre Oxford University

It may be an idiom, but it's still grammatical because it doesn't break any syntactic rules. 'It was like a dream come true' is an example of a reduced relative clause. In full it would be 'It was like a dream that had

thanks dimsumexpress, what is the fault with each of these passages? a) With powerful wings , he flew like a lion to the rescue of his friend. This sentence contains a misconceived metahoric construction, "like a lion.." but

how How can our prior knowledge of french French affect our learning of english English ?? If you can keep in mind the situations where English differs from French, the knowledge of French should be a great help in learning English. In some

Ferdis, I have no doubted that you have studied English extenesively by how you have theorized the grammatical property. And I appreciate that. But I am not convinced by your explanations and points. Mainly, "Mother is in the kitchen

Two simple changes: "child centered" is used as an adjective and should be hypenated; "and does not allow" should be replaced by a verb that puts the sentence into absolute parallel form. Child-centered education is important

"China is far" is the same structure as "she is beautiful" which is SUBJECT + verb (is) + adjective. So "far" is adjective. This is my approach toward adverbials which may or may not conform to the

May I try? (l) a siimple sentence. (2) it has a compound predicate. (3) the two predicates are connected by the coordinating conjunction "and"(4) predicate No. 1 = bought a box of colors. "box" is modified by "a" (an

Tell me wether the word is a predicate adjective, Subect, Direct Obejest, Objective of a proposition, possesive noun, action verb, preposition, linking verb, Indirect Object, or predicate noun of each sentence. We walk to school with our friends.