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

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

It is correct as a noun phrase -- provided you capitalize I . It could be used as a subject or direct object, for example. Nevertheless, it is not a sentence. You'll have to put some other words with it to make a sentence. CJ

I need help with the sentence, "People thronged to watch Christians thrown to the lions." My question is, "to watch Christians" the noun phrase or is it just "Christians"? I also need to know the function of the

I know I shouldn't guess at this, but I'd say it's an appositive, and therefore a gerund. It's in apposition to the direct object "nerve," which means it has to be a noun. I think you could say the whole "participial

<< What's stopping the pronoun being the object of the clause. >> I think this would only work as an appositive, but it would need a comma, and would make no sense contextually. What's stopping the truck, being more than

(prepositional-gerund phrase) I had no idea such a thing existed. I think it's another example of the tail wagging the dog. Maybe CJ planted a seed earlier in the thread, mentioning an omitted "by." I didn't read it well and

Hi again, Eddie. "How" is here an interrogative pronoun, and in a sentence, this type of pronoun will introduce a clause of some sort (in this case a noun clause). The same happens with wh-words. Be careful, however, because this is not

1. Yes, the difference between a complex noun phrase and a simple one is that the complex noun phrase will contain at least one dependent clause. 2. That's one of the ways of identifying noun clauses. It isn't always east, though, as you

What you call your "attempt" is almost perfect, Eddie. You're good at grammar! One minor correction I'd made would be the category acting as subject: it is a clause, not a phrase. It has a verb (even if not a finite form) and it