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What you call your attempt is almost perfect Eddie You re good at grammar One minor correction I d made would be the category acting as subject it is a clause not a phrase It has a verb even if not a finite form and it has modifiers for that verb as it the whole construction were a predicate...

I m so cross with myself I can t even cite material correctly Join the club Have you finally got it right Here is the sentence It was on his way back past them carrying a large burger that he heard what they were saying He subject It Make up your mind Is it It was on his way or He was on his way...

quote user Eddie88 Are phrases words that are additional parts to a sentence namely advectives or nouns which are not constituents of the actual clause quote No Clauses are made up of phrases The phrases of the clause are the constituents of the clause Clauses generally have a subject which is a...

Anaylsis of the large structure Independent clause 1 I can not tell you that mate Conjunction joining two independent clauses but Independent clause 2 what I can tell you is that it was one day before my birthday__Anaylsis of Ind Clause 2 Subject what I can tell you Verb Linking verb is Subject...

3a A cat ate the small animal 3b A cat is a small animal The syntactic analyses of the two sentences are differents In the sentence 3a we have s v do while in the second sentence 3b we have s v copular sP In 3a a cat is noun phrase a is determiner indefinite article cat is head noun of noun...

Categories or Parts of Speech he pronoun he noun phrase NP is verb a article nice adjective person noun a nice person noun phrase NP is a nice person verb phrase VP These designations come from a system of analysis called transformational grammar Functions he subject is copula a determiner nice...

Hi Everyone Is there anyone who is able to analyse a sentence in terms of form and function down to word level I ll give you an example of what I mean The boys like the girls like V VP the boys S NP gt where the determiner and boys Head Noun the girls DO NP gt where the determiner and girls Head...

What is the word sucks in Homework sucks Is it a verb or an adjective If it is a verb what does homework suck This brings up an excellent point and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English language The question at hand is Does an English verb need to...