By Clauses, Articles

Re: article sentence analyses

Hi, I was reading the May 14, 2008 (May (Web-only) article of the ChristianityToday magazine titled "Double Divorce" by Sarah Pulliam and have the following questions. A paragraph from the article: Wheaton's Community Covenant requires the upholding of "the sanctity of...

article sentence analyses

Hi, I was reading the May 14, 2008 (May (Web-only) article of the ChristianityToday magazine titled "Double Divorce" by Sarah Pulliam and have the following questions. A paragraph from the article: Wheaton's Community Covenant requires the upholding of "the sanctity of...

as

China's death toll from a massive earthquake soared by thousands Wednesday as troops rushed to plug "severe cracks" in a dam upriver from one of the hardest hit cities. I have another question regarding the use of as. Should the two clauses that as connects have some strong, tight...

Re: Are these sentences correct???

Incidentally, you may wish to look at this article Phrase, Clause and Sentence. It may help you to distinguish betweem a phrase or clause from a sentence.

Re: as

Hi N2g, I'm probably too pooped to make any sense. After you confirmed that this was not a "stand-alone" exercise sentence, but an excerpt from a news article, I began thinking in terms of "previous context," specifically that it had already been extablished that food...

Re: as

Actually, I''ve been reading more these days to improve my command of the language. I realize one of my many weak areas is ability to construct long sentences, ones that contain more than one clause. This is actually a sentence I picked up from a news article and it turns out to be a bad...

HELP PLEASE!!

Directions: From the copy of the article below, note that There are 9 dependent clauses or phrases numbered and bracketed.Cut and paste these onto your response.Label each with the abbreviation of its structure. Submission example: (1) it would save 851,000 tons of wood annually─enough to...

Is this correct usage? What kind of clauses is this?

I saw the following sentence in an article. "The soldiers marched down the hill, determined to destroy the fortress." What kind of clause is "determined to destroy the fortress"? I feel like the clause is modifying the subject soldiers. Shouldn't the clause be placed...

Re: until 2006, when she found success as Ugly Betty

Thanks, Clive. The base sentence is an excerpt from an article. There are still some lines before But ... I didn't quote them because I thought they wer irrelavant to my question. To make sure, does the comma indicate it's followed by the non-restrictive relative clause in the base...

What does " charges " here mean ?

Dear teachers , I read an article written in English on education , and I don't understand the noun " charges " in the sentence below: " Overcrowded classrooms also mean that students will have little chance to practise listening and speaking English. As Hanna Floyd says:...