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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...

Hi, Anon, I should probably keep out of this. I don't think they used the expression "complement" when I was in school. The type of action the verb describes often limits its function. Transitive verbs take objects. "She hit him." Intransitive verbs don't. "She matured." Some verbs...

Hello Teo The problem you are raising is tough to discuss. The constructions <S V C> and <S V O C> where C is an adjective depicting the subject's state are called "subject-related depictive construct" or "subject-related secondary predicate". The last term indicates that the...

"... will be an enormous benefit ..." is a perfectly good way to say it. There are several ways to approach expressions of this form. 1. "to be" + "of"-phrase can sometimes be paraphrased with the verb "to have". This package is of the same weight as the other. = This package has the...