By Noun phrases, Auxiliaries

Say what kind of phrase each of the following is, and account for its structure: is doing most upwardly truly vicious the economic effect of immigration on US households by a quarter a is a verb phrase which contains a verb preceded by the auxiliary is. b is an adverb phrase with...

Sometimes passive sentences are described without using auxiliary verb, when don't we use aux verbs in passive sentence? Example:- Insulin: A hormone secreted by the PancreasFirst of all, a hormone secreted by the pancreas is not a sentence. It is a noun phrase, that is, an expression that...

What is the word sucks in "Homework sucks"? Is it a verb or an adjective? If it is a verb, what does homework suck?This brings up an excellent point, and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English language. The question at hand is "Does an English verb...

Hello, Nobody replied to my previous post, but I hope someone will for this one 1) The representative told the press a lie out of fear of retribution. Parts of speech: The = definite article Representative = noun Told = ditransitive verb Press = noun A = indefinite article Lie = noun Out...

Yes, it is possible for a noun phrase to have two heads, or more. If "NHS" mrefers to both the clinics and the centres (not just to the clinics) then the head is, as you said, "clinics and centres". I don't know in which way you are asked to go about syntactic analysis. What I would do, however...

This problem has been lingering in my mind for years. How to analyse it ? have = verb ? ( if have is verb, then ' to go ' is noun phrase and ' now ' is adverb ) ? If this is the case, then ' now' as an adverb can't modify a ' noun phrase ' but modify the have :p . That analysis is a little...