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

Dear friend, the brown floor is a single noun phrase, you rightly assume so. It is the direct object of the sentence They painted the brown floor. However, when it comes to the second sentence, the analysis differs, the floor brown is not a

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

Dear speakers of English. I have a question concerning English relative clause which had long been my headache. Here is my sentence: He is the son of Mike, who is my best friend. My question is: which one should be the antecedent of the

I am an English grammar instructor. Your explanation is excellent as is your reference to the history of the form. However, you have a few errors technically in your examples. Although my Japanese is not strong, I had the pleasure of studying with

That article at that link you posted mentions three ways of dealing with "spoken grammar". The second one is actually the approach I was taking: one single grammar. This is what is said in that article, and what I have been saying

My Am. Htg. dictionary definition of "appositive" gives me the impression that both the appositive and the word or phrase it represents must be nouns or noun phrases. If this is true, the appositive can have only an adjectival function.

If one tries to identify the head of the noun phrase (and don't bother with identifying the noun phrase), they then have a whole bunch of words around it confusing them. When we use terms like "the head of the phrase" and

Talking (Gerund) with youngsters (XXX phrase), including teenagers and university students (prepositional phrase) (YYY phrase), I (subject) found (verb) most (noun) were (verb) quite concerned (verb) about their future career (prepositional

Hi again, Eddie. "How" is here an interrogative pronoun, and in a sentence, this type of pronoun will introduce a clause of some sort (in this case a noun clause). The same happens with wh-words. Be careful, however, because this is not