I'm so cross with myself. I can't even cite material correctly. Join the club! Have you finally got it right? Here is the sentence! It was on his way back past them, carrying a large burger, that he heard what they were saying. He =

Secondly, does a noun phrase always have a complementizer at the start of it (head)? No. According to the description in Wiki, complementizers are the syntactic head of a full clause. A noun phrase is not a full clause. Example: "the grand

I'm so cross with myself. I can't even cite material correctly. Here is the sentence! It was on his way back past them, carrying a large burger, that he heard what they were saying. He= subject was= main verb on his way= preposition plus

3a) A cat ate the small animal. 3b) A cat is a small animal. The syntactic analyses of the two sentences are differents. In the sentence 3a) we have (s, v, do) while, in the second sentence 3b) we have (s, v (copular), sP). In 3a) “a cat

My problem with definite and indefinite articles is less than with definite/indefinite pronouns. I think I'm starting to see other and another as indefinite articles, my as definite article and mine as indefinite article. There's no

Hello Infinity. I'm a mere English learner from Japan, but could you allow me to throw my 2 cents on your question? Frankly speaking, I'd say you'd better give up the hope you could get a conclusive answer to the question. I have raised a

Hello, Nobody replied to my previous post, but I hope someone will for this one 1) The representative told the press a lie out of fear of retribution. Parts of speech: The = definite article Representative = noun Told = ditransitive

Hi Taka, Yes I've found the reference-- it's over in 'adjectives', and has to do with the rather anomalous order of adjectives with intensifiers 'how, too' etc. where the order of indefinite article and attibutive adjective is reversed. So,

Hello, runner I don't know if this will be very easy to understand. It will depend, perhaps, on how familiar you are with syntactic analisis. "a person or object" is a noun phrase which has two heads: person and object. Both heads appear in

The full grammatical explanation is that an adjective modified by the intensifiers 'too', 'so' or 'enough' can be separated from its complementation if the adjective is placed before the indefinite article of the noun phrase. Let's take "It was