By Clauses, Prepositions

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.

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.

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1. Do not place a phrase or clause:A. in a sentence. B. at the beginning of a sentence. C. at the end of a sentence. D. too far from the word it is meant to modify.Answer D. 2. In every sentence, the subject must agree with the:A. object of the preposition. B. verb. C. intervening expressions....

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: 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...

Re: preposition+obj pronoun+?

 Clive : I mean the preposition "with" -> pronoun/noun (a boy) --> participle/relative pronoun. And also others preposition like, of, from, for,after and all this kind of preposition to introduce a subordinate clause .  I was wondering whether a bare infinitive could be used after...

Re: preposition+obj pronoun+?

What's your advice? (reply) Do five subjects. This is a stand-alone imperative sentence. You're looking for a phrase which will modify "boy." We just happen to have one for you. It's called a participial phrase. It begins with a participle, which "do" is...

Re: Is it a subject relative?

Hello.Relative clauses can only be (from a syntactic point of view) either post-modifiers of nouns/pronouns, or sentence modifiers. They are never objects; they don't modify verbs.What can be subjects or objects, WITHIN the relative clauses themselves, are the relative pronouns used (who,...

Re: about ' prep. + which + to inf ' structure

You can't have a noun followed by which followed by an infinitive or which followed by a for ... to ... clause, so only A works.Put differently, you can modify a noun directly by an infinitive or a for ... to ... clause -- no which in between:a car to drive; a book to read; a road to takea...

Verbs

The list isn't meant to be exhaustive or carefully arranged. Any additions, corrections or further examples would be welcomed. 1 main verbs; lexical verbs (all verbs which are not auxiliaries or modals) 2 action verbs; event verbs; dynamic verbs (a verb which can be used in...