By Infinitive clauses, Noun phrases

Hello everybody,Taka, I must admit that I don't feel any adjectival flavor in that clause,only adverbial flavor.The clause: "to alter or emphasize what we say and do" is an adverbial(purpose)clause. In the sentence:I learned a good way to ensure the absence of typing mistakes.the...

--------- infinitive clause: a type of non-finite clause, with the verb in the infinitive. Infinitive clauses may or may not contain the infinitive marker to. A subject may or may not be present; the subject of an infinitive clause may be realized as a noun phrase or as a prepositional...

Hello GuysThought Professor KM's replies are superb, I'd like to add two things. (1) I answered to MaX as above because MaX asked why it is a gerund. However, I think we might say also "He welcomed their commitment to improve skills". In this case we can parse it as "He welcomed (their...

deleted by an obligatory deletion transform. Will this work on the clutter in my living room? Don't we all wish!!! LOL Part of the problem, as Paco has aptly observed, is the problem of finding the missing (deleted) subject of a dependent clause, the infinitive clause "to be ... cleverer...

Hello Taka I know you get unpleasant with this, but please allow me to put my two cents on your question. "He learned to smoke" If we compare this with "He learned English", we see "to smoke" here is working as a noun phrase. If we negate the action "smoke", we get a sub-surface collocation...

Jamal I'd like to add something I know about your question. Some linguists would analyze the syntax of your sentence the way as this; My hunger caused something (=a clause or noun phrase). My hunger caused . (a finite clause) paco

Hello CJ again, Thank you for the detailed explanation. I'll review what you've taught me. "The thief would be nice to catch" sounds best fit the review, so please allow me to use it. #1 (IC). The IC appears, by the transformation, to get changed from a noun phrase to a complement (or...

Hi, Malory. 1. "Preserving rare and valuable books and documents is one of the challenges FACING THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS." The construction in capital letters is a participial clause (present participial); it functions as post modifier of "challenges". It is what's also called a "reduced...