By Grammar, Predicates

To me, there is nothing indecorous about "one-legged," but it sounds more natural preceding a noun than after "he is..." In other words, I would say "A one-legged man came into the room." but "He has only one leg" rather than "he is...

On second thoughts I believe Yoda would say: "My friend, Maria is." (OSV). Does that mean the predicate nominative is some kind of object? Sorry to be asking such stupid questions but this parser thing really has really baffled me by saying "my friend" was the subject.

So what happens if we were to reverse it: "My friend is Maria", are we also reversing the roles? And what if we were to add a comma: "My friend, is Maria" is that the same? Or is it now an inversion or some kind of Yodaspeak?

Maria is my friend. Maria is the subject. my friend is the predicate nominative. My faith and my morning coffee are my salvation. My faith and my morning coffee is the subject. my salvation is the predicate nominative. The verb agrees with the subject. Five dollars is not a lot to pay for...

actually, after examining this page, I'm convinced that they're drawing a secondary distinction..... they say that phrasal adjectives functioning as 'predicate adjectives' do not recieve hyphenation. I completely disagree with that opinion. example: a text-based...

Hello, Twinkletoes.No, that's not what I'm saying. "things to do" is the direct object of "have", the main verb of the sentence. "To do" would be a clause (a non-finite one) even if "things" weren't there or if it had some other type of...

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...

a.Noun. b.Relative pronounc.Articled.Regular adjectivee.Pronominal adjectivef.Regular adverbg.Preposition – single word h.Preposition – group of wordsI.Conjunction – single-word co-ordinatej.Conjunction - subordinatek.Verbal - gerundl.Verbal - infinitivem.Appositiven.Expletiveo.Predicate -...

Gramatical terminology varies from country to country and I have never heard some of the terms in your list. However, as I see it, most - if not all - of your answers are probably correct. I have never heard of "regular adjectives" but sunny certainly is an adjective....

I'm taking a correspondence course. These are some of the exercises that I need to submit. So please I need help from grammar exerperts thanks. Question 2 : In the following paragraphs, find one example of each of the parts of the sentence listed below. Lable each example clearly. You will...