By Determiners, Predicates

There is no consensus on how to handle numerals. They are like determiners and like nouns. Some grammarians just use "numeral" as another part of speech, like "noun" or "verb".I offer this analysis, but there are surely others.fifty is a noun acting as a...

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...

Walking as if each step were painful1, she slowly pushed open the glass door and hobbled down the nearest aisle2. 1: Dependant clause (what kind of dependant clause??) I'm kind of confused as to the nature of this subordinate clause... It is reduced clause(While/As she was walking...) ...

Thanks Philip. How about the next one: Walking as if each step were painful1, she slowly pushed open the glass door and hobbled down the nearest aisle2. 1: Dependant clause (what kind of dependant clause??) I'm kind of confused as to the nature of this subordinate clause... 2:...

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...

Clive wrote:'More of my friends', 'More friends of mine', I suppose?Hi CliveThanks again. Yes, d'accord. Because of the rule that two determiners cannot be put together, you would say either "more of my friends" or "more friends of mine". I just googled some phrases to check. "two of my...

Hello muratsekerci, and welcome to EnglishForum. Question 1: Which of the following designate a legitimate type according to the type system which our language Ltype rests on? I'm not sure what means here, because these logical types are a bit unusual. But as far as I know: a. , , t>>...

He (subject) is (copula) like (preposition) a (determiner) bamboo (adjective) pole (noun). The underlined portion is called a subject complement, and it's a prepositional phrase in form: it's headed by the preposition "like", which takes the noun phrase "a bamboo pole" as its object. As for...

'Sour' is a predicate adjective. 'The' is an article, one of the determiners, which act like adjectives, but are not normally classified as such. I think you are right, but I wouldn't insist on it with his teacher.

Yes, it is possible for a noun phrase to have two heads, or more. If "NHS" mrefers to both the clinics and the centres (not just to the clinics) then the head is, as you said, "clinics and centres". I don't know in which way you are asked to go about syntactic analysis. What I would do, however...