By Clauses, Constructions

Re: Participial Construction??

.Your examples are of participial construction and rightly bear the same subject as the main clause. However, participial constructions also exist outside that relationship.With the wind blowing abeam, we quickly tacked to the inlet.-- Here, the participal clause is the object of a preposition.

Participial Construction??

Dear teachers, Please tell me if the following sentences are, what is called, "participial construction" or not. Or are these sentences nothing related to "participial construction"? In other words, can the part formed with "When + ~ing" (e.g., When calling, When...

Re: whats a complete predicate??

.A complete predicate is all of the sentence except for the subject.An appositive is 'an expression that has 'the same function and the same relation to other elements in the sentence , the second expression identifying or supplementing the first. In Washington, our first president, the...

Re: rephrase doubts

Hi, (1) What has sensitized me in more recent years from this metaphor is to also say to us that everyone faces storms. Sometimes, those storms come out of huge systems. They may be a tornado or an avalanche or maybe a car accident, when "there is innocence"---no control, vulnerable to...

Re: just that you try your best

It appears to be, I agree However, if you diagram the sentence in the traditional linear style, the verb 'expect' has two direct objects: the phrase 'your work to be perfect' and the clause 'just that you try your best'. It isn't parallel construction, but the...

just because... doesn't mean

just because ... doesn't mean... This construction is very common. But if you analyze it, you'll realize that the second clause is incomplete. It seems like missing an "It" or something. Just because I'm a doctor, doesn't mean I don't know how to use a taser. I...

Re: were late / would be late

Oh my, I'm so surprised! I would never have thought you said it yourself! By the way, you said "If I'd have known", and not "If I'd known" (which can't mean "If I would have known", because you would be leaving out a syllable...).Anyway, I'll tell...

Re: It doesn't need to be open or opened?

Whew! Go easy on the colors!There are no phrasal verbs here. It doesn't need forms the main clause.need governs infinitives, so an infinitive follows (to be).be can act as a linking verb to a noun or adjective, so an adjective can follow. (open) be can also govern past participles of...

Re: participle vs verb-ing

Newcomer,I see that you are confused with the participle usage. I'll try to give it my best shot to explain to you what I've understood about participles. "what is the man who does up there" (sounds incorrect) *asking what the man is doing* literally ( doing as verb ) => ...

Re: preposition+obj pronoun+?

Hi Anc - I wasn't suggesting you use does instead of do in your "third type of construction." I thought if I understood why you wanted to use "do" it might give me a clue as to what you have in mind. If you could only give us an example using "do" which...