By Clauses, Predicates

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...

Analyzing WH-questions the H&P CGEL way

Hi!I am reading Huddleston & Pullum's CGEL, and I've run into a problem. I don't understand how to analyze WH-questions with both subject-auxiliary inversion and . Couldn't somebody help me out?Let us take the sentence What did the Captain say? as an example. Here the Captain...

Re: "Three nuclei with one proton are known ?that? contain 0,1 and 2 neutrons, respectively."

to is an interesting suggestion, and that works.The original, with that, is a case of a 'heavy' relative clause 'floating' to the right. The underlying form isThree nuclei .The author got himself into a grammatical corner and chose this last version as the least...

English Grammer

I want brief explanations about following topics: 1- Narrations( Active Passive and Direct Indirect) 2- Clauses(Adjective,Noun,Adverb & Preposition clauses) 3- Predicate nominative.

Re: subject of subordinate clause

#1 John who took my pen is here. #2 John who is wearing my jacket is here. How firm a grasp would you like to obtain? (I know I shouldn't have written that, but I couldn't resist.) The thing that works for me is to take out the the subject and the "verb" and see if it still...

Please Check My Answers

1. An adjective modifies a:A. verb. B. noun. C. pronoun. D. both b & c.Answer D. 2. Adverbs modify:A. verbs. B. adjectives. C. other adverbs. D. all the aboveAnswer D. 3. The purpose of a preposition is to connect:A. nouns to other words in the sentence. B. pronouns to other words in the...

Re: conjunctive adverbs

Conjunctive adverbs, or simply "conjuncts", do exist, and are different from sentence adverbials.These conjuncts link sentences or paragraphs and usually appear at the beginning of a sentence. The adverbials Anonymous mentioned in their first post, those that tell us something...

Re: Question about the phrase "I have things to do"

Hello, Twinkletoes.No, that's not what I'm saying. "things to do" is the direct object of "have", the main verb of the sentence. "To do" would be a clause (a non-finite one) even if "things" weren't there or if it had some other type of...

Re: They say he's genius

Hi LiJ, I haven't heard "genius" used as an adjective, but perhaps someone else has. Anyway, I'd have to scratch your #1 sentence. I would say that in the first pair, which refers to the predicate adjective. In the second pair, I'd say which refers to the nouns, genius...

Re: predicate nominative?

First, you don't have to use the nominative case of the pronoun: She's a better swimmer than me is far more common. You must use the nominative if the rest of the clause is there: She's a better swimmer than I am. Without the clause, I sounds stilted to many nowadays.Pronouns on the predicate...