Hi BillJ, If my analytical is wrong, then, I may have to ask my old teacher to review his notes. Still, this is my approach: I (subj) saw (verb) him (object) washing his car (noun phrase) this morning ( time adverbial) Thus, I saw him = a

Adj after noun: But in your first three sentences, the ‘–ing words’ are verbs, not ‘participles as adjectives’. Just because they are participle in form says nothing about their syntactic function. For a participle to be adjectival it needs

I’m sorry but I disagree. It’s very common to say ‘I fly American/United/Lufthansa/El Al’ and so on. The meaning of such expressions is widely understood. The word ‘American’ is functioning as a noun here. Even when used in a

They are different kinds of words. They are both sometimes short. Adverb : the word class that qualifies adjectives, verbs or clauses. Preposition : a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional

Good evening, English 1b3! My understanding is that the head of a phrase determines the phrase's nature. - the term 'nature' may have far too many possible interpretations. It can refer to etymology, word-class characteristics,

Greetings, English 1b3, let me begin by characterising each sentence you mention and then laying my case for the correctness/incorrectness of each utterance: 1. The glasses no longer have crappy read and green lenses, instead having clear

Hi I think the general rule here is to use ' because of' if a noun/noun phrase follows, and to use 'because' if you can replace it with 'for the reason that'. Dokterjokkebrok

THe entire thing is the main clause. I -- the subject understand -- the simple verb well enough -- how you understand, so an adverb phrase modifying the main verb what difference a few days can make -- the entire noun phrase that is

. It seems to me clearly to describe the moon, hence an adjective. There is no reason to consider it a reduced clause; the noun phrase can be rearranged: the beautiful, luminescent, always so close, full moon Irecently read a site that states

Another example of discrimination is if a child in Peru does not know Spanish , they are discouraged from attending schools where Spanish is the main and formal language. Another example of discrimination =noun phrase (subject) is =linking verb