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Hi, I have just two sall questions from your detailed analysis. The questions are based on your analysis, which I have copied below. Anaylsis of Ind. Clause #2: Subject: what I can tell you Verb: (Linking verb) is Subject complement: (predicate nominative) that it was one day...

Hi, I have just two sall questions from your detailed analysis. The questions are based on your analysis, which I have copied below. Anaylsis of Ind. Clause #2: Subject: what I can tell you Verb: (Linking verb) is Subject complement: (predicate nominative) that it was one day...

Anaylsis of the large structure: Independent clause #1 : I can not tell you that, mate, Conjunction joining two independent clauses: but Independent clause #2: what I can tell you is that it was one day before my birthday __ Anaylsis of Ind. Clause #2: Subject: what I can tell you Verb:...

"Who threw the stone?" (reply) "It is one of those who are angry." I don't think "one" is the subject of anything here. It's a predicate nominative, or "complement" of the verb "is." "It" is the subject of the sentence, and...

"To" is not a preposition here. It's part of the infinitive form of the verb, "to introduce." "To introduce you to Paul" is an infinitive phrase acting as a noun, not a prepositional phrase. Best wishes, - A.

I want brief explanations about following topics: 1- Narrations( Active Passive and Direct Indirect) 2- Clauses(Adjective,Noun,Adverb & Preposition clauses) 3- Predicate nominative.

First, you don't have to use the nominative case of the pronoun: She's a better swimmer than me is far more common. You must use the nominative if the rest of the clause is there: She's a better swimmer than I am. Without the clause, I sounds stilted to many nowadays. Pronouns on the...

I was told that when you use the word 'than' in a comparative sense, you use the subjective form for what comes next. Actually it depends on its function in the clause. The following are two different statements. She likes you better than he. She likes you better than him. To...

Your questions reveal the limitations of the traditional technical vocabulary for discussing grammatical structures! You can think of infinitives as a direct objects of the verb want. On the other hand, want takes a clause as its complement. I want (He helps us). But the...

Feathers wrote: Hi IK. Yes, it's hard to understand for me either, but I don't like to take it as a nonsense. I have a feeling that many of those example sentences could be analyzed into a verb, an object and an objective complement, if we use more familiar terms. Inchoateknowledge wrote:...