Hello, Amy, rejecting any of the sentences and condemning them as absolutely incorrect would be a serious flaw in linguistic thinking, but we may still make use of these categories (correct/incorrect) when explaining neat areas of grammar to our

(...continued) Henry was tired, hot, and sweaty (poor man!!!) also features one finite verb phrase, in fact - the only one. Tired, hot, and sweaty is a subject complement (or predicative), and there are no grounds for 'seeing it through

there still exists a tendency to put English in a mould originally intended for Latin I agree, but I don't see how it applies in this case. It seems to me that the majority of languages (if not all) have sentences that divide into subjects and

Thus, in a sentence such as I washed my face and brushed my teeth and went to bed the predicate is everything except for I , which is a subject (by denying that one automatically accepts the viewpoint that the sentence is a compound one, with

(...continued) ... 'They have appeared on message boards.' and ' spread by word of mouth.' Such a phenomenon is technically known as polypredication . Second, punctuation comes in handy, as the comma in such cases usually indicates

I thought have was needed before spread to keep a single tense. That would be a good solution: They have appeared on message boards and in blogs and have spread by word of mouth. There are no dependent clauses here, by

Hi The simple answer is yes, but there’s more to it than that. The verb ‘stay’ is a linking verb (aka a copular verb). What it links here is the subject (‘the paint’) with the entire sequence ’looking good for many years’ , which although

Not really my cup of tea. The semicolon puzzles me greatly. (I suppose it separates the two direct objects.) I see only one main clause: home has setting and descent . The only other thing I'd call a clause is "that seems appropriately

1 The kitchen is the place I like to have the cleanest at all times. Since I moved out and have been living on my own, cleanliness has been a big part of my everyday life , as opposed to when I lived with a roommate and didn't care how the

The for-to-Infinitive Construction "is a construction in which the infinitive is in predicate relation to a noun or a pronoun preceded by the preposition for," L. A. Kaushanskaya (1970:200) In the sentence the for-to-Infinitive Construction can