Well, now I'm embarrassed again. Also depending/ dependent upon the weather would be the farmers and the construction workers. In the matter of the subject of the sentence, I suppose all kinds of phrases can be "noun phrases" and

*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

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

This question was posted a long time ago. I appreciate your input, nonetheless. As mentioned already, the subject of the independent clause is a noun phrase, not a noun clause. The subject and verb within is what confuses you. The noun

According to what I learned, that is only applicable to subjects using constructs such as 'either or'. Either the dog or the cat is leaving. Either the dogs or the cats are leaving. Eiter the cat or the dogs are leaving. Either the dogs or

Do you also consider this inversion? A tree is there. <--> There is a tree I personally think it is. These 2 websites will clear all all doubts on inversions. http://esl.about.com/od/advancedgrammar/a/inversion.htm

Michael, welcome! You have posed a knotty question! Here are some thoughts. When I have trouble with possessives, I think of the equivalent "of" construction. In this case, I think you mean: the needs of (each of our patients)... The

How about the structure like: noun phrase + present participle and its complements? I wouldn't regard this as the central case. It's a less used construction. Semantically it is very aggressive to my ear. It has the aspect of ordering

The construction (subject + be + of + noun phrase) emphasizes the relationship between the noun phrase and the subject. The object of the preposition is an attribute belonging to the subject. He is (a person) of good character. I am of Scotish

. Both different from and different than are acceptable. Here's a Canadian perspective (University of Victoria): "Different from" is the more accurate and acceptable form: "Apples are different from oranges," "He was