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

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

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

1) He was as handsome a young man as ever walked along the streets of London. 2) He is as handsome as the young man I don't understand the word order of the second sentence in the above. English has a pair of correlative conjunctions

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

Besides the stress question which is already answered, here is something to check out. http://www.languagetrainers.co.uk/blog/2008/11/03/sometimes-its-some-times-but-itll-be-some-time-sometime/ Sometimes is an adverb, and should be used

"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"

There is no denying the fact that he is a faithful husband. I don't think you mean "parts of speech." I was always taught there are only eight of those. I don't know much about "that." "That he is a faithful

There is no denying the fact that he is a faithful husband. Please help me to divide the above sentence into constituent parts of speech. is is a verb. denying the fact is a noun phrase functioning as an object.