Greetings, Tina, Mister Micawber's answers are completely relevant, but let me make some additional remarks: 1. A time of prosperity and peace - is a noun phrase you analysed absolutely correctly. In general, noun phrases may have the

I think the original post was referring to possessives in general, not just 'him'. Trad grams called my, your, his/her/its, our, your, their possessive adjectives . However, in many modern grammars they came to be called

Good. Now: what can I tell you?-- It has no real grammar, since it is just a noun phrase with its appositive. All I can say is that the adjective order is acceptable.

Where can I read about this point of grammar? What book? Any fairly complete grammar book should cover this. Look under "Verbs with Predicative Compliments". You can also try searching the internet. There are six different patterns that

*the slept man *a belonged wallet *a left guest *the gone people *the arrived women *a disappeared rabbit *a died geranium Hi CJ, I get our point. I have no argument about intransitive participles not being able to

would you say an adjective can be placed after a noun? I am not a linguist, that being out of the way, I'd interpret it this way. North - is quite abstract as written in the sentence. For #1, it's understood to mean " north

Please correct me if I am wrong. But one single word can not satisfy the description of a . It depends on the analytical system you are using. Andrew Radford, in Transformational Grammar , gives the following sentence as an example: Cars can be

Hi! According to my book you use "there" before nouns or noun phrases and "it" before adjectives and noun clauses. What I don't understand is that right after this explanation they stated the following example: -

Hi, Thank You, but can be "40-hour peer week" ? Y ou mean 'per', not 'peer'. You can say either of these. He works a 40-hour week. '40-hour' is an adjective. The object of the verb 'works' is the

Rahul: (l) Yes, most grammarians say that the antecedent of "which" is "The police found the murder weapon"; however, a few don't know whether it is accurate to call "which made the prosecutor's job easier" an