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

Hi, Many kind thanks in advance for anyone who can answer the following question. What part of speech is the word guitar in the sentence below: It's a noun, as you probably know. I like playing guitar. Is playing guitar a noun

Hello, Many kind thanks in advance for anyone who can answer the following question. What part of speech is the word guitar in the sentence below: I like playing guitar. Is playing guitar a noun phrase, and if so, what is that?

Hi, So if it is not a comound noun, yet together 'bucket of water' calls out a thing, what part of speech is it? I mean, obviously 'bucket of water' is something, so there must be name for the part of speech in the sentence.

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

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.

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

I believe that what you say is true. I hasten to add one small caveat. There is a generic naming procedure which allows phrases and clauses to be named after the part of speech of the word which fronts them. This is not without its confusing