Greetings, Tina, Mister Micawber's answers are completely relevant, but let me make some additional remarks: 1. A time of prosperity and peace - is a noun phrase you analysed absolutely correctly. In general, noun phrases may have the

Greetings, Icadia, Direct speech: It's against the law in our state for her to drive until she has been seizure-free for six months. Indirect speech: 1. The provisions of the legislation have probably not changed by the time of reporting

much absolutely cannot be used there. loud and great are not really idiomatic there, though with the addition of of , the use of loud is slightly less objectionable. The positioning of adjectives in front of gerund clauses is not often successful

Hi. Is it correct to put adjectives like "loud" or "great" or what looks to be a determiner (not sure, though) like "much" in front of a gerund clause? eg, His much/loud/great playing the violin in the early

if I add a noun Adding a noun makes a sentence that is a bit non-standard in my opinion. what books he referred to actually means, and is better written, the books (that) he referred to . books is thus the real subject, not the entire clause,

Hello,I am trying to teach my 3 Chinese students to perform grammatical analysis on English sentences (or what some people call "diagramming a sentence"). I am nothing close to a qualified English teacher; I only come from a heavily

With the determiner, there's a noun in front of the main verb. Is this the only difference between the two? Having the noun in front of the verb is not the important part. What is important is that the determiner is followed by a noun. ... why

In the first sentence,"all those golden dreams" is the subject because "dreams" is "what" performs the action and "all those golden" are just determiners attributing qualities and specifying the word

It is a logical assumption to say that she may make a fatal mistake in subsequent acts, allowing the townspeople to look into her true self which may in turn anger them; the end of the virtuous life of Abigail will be grave. Hi, from the analysis

hey! so the example you cited.. This is the house that Jack built. is a complete clause? This = determiner? the house = noun phrase that = determiner? Jack built = post modifier or complement?