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In response to the questions posed in the first post of this thread the officer is NOT the subject of the sentence regardless of whether the sentence is active or passive The officer is undoubtedly the doer of the action in both sentences but it is the subject only in the sentence with the...

1 and 2 are bare infinitives they are object complements of the direct objects him and us respectively 3 is the ing participle construction serving the same function object complement of them Yes infinitives can serve various functions object I want to go subject To dance well is my dream

The function of the that clause is direct object of believe Believe what Believe that you like it The that clause can also be considered the direct object of the find construction Note the grammar of find I find this difficult this is the direct object of find Find what Find this With the object...

This is off the internet too Abmateen but I could do no better Personal Passive simply means that the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence So every verb that needs an object transitive verb can form a personal passive Example They build houses Houses are built...

In these different constructions different types of things are ellipted 1 My father bought me a cell phone which is as small as a mouse Which is is understood or ellipted Which is as small as a mouse is an adjective clause that modifies phone Actually is small after mouse is also ellipted which...

0 ok let s put it this way GB is nothing more than a module in the generative grammar to be put on a par with such other modules of the theory as X Case theory or the Theta Theory although it has been quite incorrectly treated as though it were the whole of the Grammar Chomsky 1995b p 30 The...

MichalS wrote Hi I m a new member on the forum My name s Michal and I m from Poland I ve been learning descriptive grammar of Enlgish lately Reading LONGMAN Grammar of Spoken and Written English I ve come across a couple of problems which are hard for me to overcome I hope that you will help me...

Another kind of illegitimate argument is based on analogy between one area of grammar and another consider yet another construction where there is variation between nominative and accusative forms of pronouns 3 a They invited me to lunch b They invited my partner and I to lunch The lt gt symbol...

Hello Ethanw This is not a reply to your question but merely my tip about it First of all please allow me to say your first sentence is wrong It should be They made him leave This is a special structure called as causative construction This sentence can be parsed as They made him leave or They...

Hi I m a new member on the forum My name s Michal and I m from Poland I ve been learning descriptive grammar of Enlgish lately Reading LONGMAN Grammar of Spoken and Written English I ve come across a couple of problems which are hard for me to overcome I hope that you will help me with that A lot...