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Nobody said it was not a clause! There are several bits of terminology that are confusing. One set of terms applies to the individual words. 'house' is a noun . 'happy' is an adjective . 'quietly' is an adverb . And so on. Another set of terms applies to groups of words...

Note that the noun phrase contains a (relative) clause, and it is also contained within a larger clause in each case above. CJ P.S. Part of your frustration may be because not all writers use the terms ''phrase' and 'clause' (and others) completely consistently at all...

f 1 She stopped looking for a way out. 2 She stopped to look for a way out. my analying to these sentences is like this: sentence f1 : " She " pronoun functioning as subject " stopped " is main verb " looking " i don't know what is it ,it could be...

I have to analyse the following sentence, but I'm really stuck... "Amanda's practical solutions of what had seemed an insoluble mystery descended on the family like a balm." I have to cut this sentence into constituents and cut those up in nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives,...

Velimir wrote: Hello everybody, I have two questions about the word "where" . 1.I've been told that "where" in the following sentence is a pronoun by its form : Where did you get to? And the explanation is that in possible answer like: I got to page 4. it stands for the noun phrase "page...

Hello Kooyeen, First,thank you very much for your answer . In the meantime I've got the answer on part 1 of my post .It is a question of a preposition at the end of a question.I understand that if ,for example, I ask : Where are you going to? - "where" is a pronoun since it can be replaced...

Hello everybody, I have two questions about the word "where" . 1.I've been told that "where" in the following sentence is a pronoun by its form : Where did you get to? And the explanation is that in possible answer like: I got to page 4. it stands for the noun phrase "page 4". ...

‘After playing chess’ is a prepositional phrase functioning as an adverb of time modifying the main verb ‘went’. It’s also considered an elided clause. In ‘ After he played chess, he went on to take a long walk home.’ the prepositional phrase becomes a full subordinate clause. ‘Playing chess’ is...

The only thing that can come after a preposition to form a prepositional phrase is a noun phrase, usually a noun accompanied by its preceding determiner and perhaps an adjective. A relative clause may be added. The noun itself may be a gerund. If the element after the candidate for a...

I can find the website, but I can't find your link, so I cannot judge what they wrote on appositives. I did notice that some of their terminology is odd if not incorrect, as for instance in the following. I have emboldened the highly questionable terms: In the following sentence the content...