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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". ...

"33.6 Though the relative and interrogative pronouns and adverbs beginning with wh are identical in form, it is possible in most cases to tell whether a clause is relative or interrogative. What is relative in 'I insist on paying what it has cost,' but interrogative in 'I insist on knowing...

OED definition of "all": • predeterminer & determiner 1 the whole quantity or extent of: all her money. 2 any whatever: he denied all knowledge. 3 the greatest possible: with all speed. • pronoun everything or everyone. • adverb 1 completely. 2 indicating an equal score: one-all. ...

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...

In my book, there are no such things as adjectival and adverb clauses. An adjective modifies, so does a relative clause; but IMO they are all noun appositions, therefore nominal clauses; and the nominal clause is in adjective function. Not all phrases are clauses, and the reverse is also...