I don't want to be a pain in the neck but I am doing English Grammar II at the teacher training school and we are analyzing sentences. Since I am practising on my own I have come across many doubts. My doubt has to do with the verb

No, Jones is the subject - the hand is the direct object. Joes is doing the action; the hand is receiving the action.

Off-topic side note: with German (and Dutch) word ordering the problem does not occur because a verb phrase is split into two separate parts. For example, using a Dutch/German word order (V2) this sentence becomes something like, "The

Hello, We don't split verb phrases like "must have been sleeping" because the whole phrase is acting together as the verb. (But, in this example, you could choose to see "sleeping" as a gerund acting as the predicate noun

I don't think that such a thing as a 'direct object adjective' exists. Please check your source or give me some more information about what you are looking for.

"If the i.o.u.'s are issued as threated, it would be the first time since 1992 -- when Gov. Pete Wilson paid roughly 100,000 state employees with them -- that the warrants were used to hold over those to whom the state owed money . "

From Oxford it says: He has committed himself to support his brother's children. (Verb) But no examples provided for adjective usage. To the last question, I learned long ago that it's incorrect to use bare infinitve after

Anon: You can tell if a word is a verb or a noun by looking at the sentence it is in. In English, some words can be verbs or nouns depending on how they are used. For example: I wash my hands before lunch. - wash is definitely a verb! I hung out

Hi Ticce. There are some verbs which are followed with infg forms. __ Some verbs that are followed by -ing can also be followed by infinitive of purpose. One of them is stop. See these ones: I stopped talking . (I ceased to do it.) (I stopped

Have you ever seen the movie "Peggy Sue Got Married"? Peggy Sue was a middle-aged woman who passes out at her high school reunion and wakes up 25 years in the past, when she's a high school student again - but with all her adult