Subject, object, and adjunct are related to function. On the other hand, NP is a formal quality of words. We should not confuse the two distinct notions. -- I saw him washing his car this morning. him = OD (while he was) washing his car this

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

Hello, Specter. In your sentence "Working for him doesn't interest me," "working for him" is the subject and the rest is the predicate. The subject happens to be a gerundive (or gerundial, as some call

Hello,I am trying to teach my 3 Chinese students to perform grammatical analysis on English sentences (or what some people call "diagramming a sentence"). I am nothing close to a qualified English teacher; I only come from a heavily

My brother lives in India . The verb "to live" is intransitive and does not take an object. "I sleep in my bed ." These are prepositional phrases acting adverbially, modifying the verb and telling where. The verb "to

"Inadequacy" is the subject of your sentence, but there's no verb. Everything you've written describes what kind of inadequacy you're talking about, but you don't say what it does or what it is. An example of an action

Hi, Eddie, I struggled with the same question. I guess anybody can make up a term. Some stick; some don't. CJ seems to talk about the function of a word vs. its identity, or something like that. I think it's all a matter of definition, and

I wanted to tell him to leave It has been frustrating living in the shadow of Victoria. -- In a different post, I received answers to the analysis of these sentences, and they confused me about whether verbals become a part of the verb or the

At times it has been frustrating living in the shadow of Victoria to the point that you want them to have a fight. Analysis of athe above sentence: -- Noun phrase = At times, it At times = form:Prepositional phrase Function:adverbial

1) 'There are a series' is actually the main clause is it not? The prep phrase is not needed as there is a subject and verb with its complement, 'series' is this correct? Indeed, you are right that the prep. phrase is not