Geez, I think so. (I'd be more inclined to call it a parenthetical expression without parentheses.) I'm not really an expert on these. I don't usually see them at the end, but I can't say why not. They usually represent the thing

Jaleel.nt, in the first instance, we deal with a phenomenon that is conventionally known as a passive gerund ; the whole clause with being... can be substituted with a noun phrase, eg, ...this award . Therefore, we refer to being... as a nominal

Personally I just use what feels correct (for me) in each individual case. Same here. And nine times out of ten I make the agreement with the noun phrase immediately after "none of". I haven't introspected enough to be sure whether

I agree with B about "He is a teacher." In that case, teacher is the predicate nominative. It's not an object. I agree with you that "that he loved me" serves as a noun phrase.

"Nominative" is the adjectival form of "noun." It doesn't get used very much on this site. I think I've seen MrP use it one time. It's always something of a tossup as to whether a "noun phrase"

The head of the phrase is the central element of the phrase, not the first word in the phrase, but I assume you know this. I see it is as an adjective phrase in that it is headed by an adjective 'seven.' Functionally, however, I see it as

function as an object of a preposition or function as a complement, which a noun phrase can.. A that clause (where that is a complementizer) is most often used as a direct object, but it can also be used as a subject or as a predicate nominative (

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