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

Dear friends, just a tiny remark. ...for some jerk to catch me carrying this thing around and get the wrong idea is a to-infinitive clause. It is the subject predicative in the given sentence: All I need is f or some jerk to catch me

subject,direct object,indirect object,predicate nominative,objcet of a preposition,direct address,appositive,or an abjective complement. These terms describe the functions that words take when used in sentences . They are not properties of

Because add is not a verb of giving, showing, or communicating, the inanimate object of to so often seen with it is not generally considered an indirect object. variety is indeed the direct object, but to a city is an ordinary prepositional

I don't think this is intended as a declarative sentence, but rather as a caption, or heading. It could also be an announcement of a planned future meeting, in which case it could be considered a correct declarative sentence. If this is

Dear Walter, thank you for this interesting question. First of all, blurred should be analysed in connection with being since being blurred is a non-finite complex verb phrase. The meaning of this part of the sentence is obviously passive;

i have to label the simple subjects, verb or verb phrases, direct objects, indirect objects, and predicate nouns. Then I have to bracket any prepositional phrases and label the objects of the prepositions. Here is the sentence: Susie and I

May I ask a very respectful question? Was it just a mistake when you labeled "the little imp" as d.o. and "a spanking" as i.o. According to what I learned, the d.o. is surely "a spanking" and the i.o. is "the

If the preposition is there, there is no direct object; it is intransitive.

"I'll fiddle with the frequency" Hi, since there's a preposition "with" between the direct object, "frequency" and verb, "fiddle"...does that still make "fiddle" a transitive verb