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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...

User_gary wrote: Philip wrote: User_gary wrote: I am eating oranges everyday in the morning. Here `eating' is adjective (i.e. past participle) or noun (i.e. Gerund)? What you have is the present continuous tense..and it really should be "I eat oranges every day.." OK, Thank you. ...

Sheerinshaikh wrote: pls tell me which is correct sentence IAM LOOKING FORWARD TO MEET YOU OR IAM LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING YOU. & why please? pls reply me soon. thanks. Most learners get confused by the infinitive “to”, thinking that after “to” the bare form of...

Am I correct in saying gerund is a verbal noun? Going home I met Joe. Which is the gerund here? 'Going home'? Yes, I think. What is 'going'? A non-finite verb in the gerund phrase the direct object of which is 'a house', nicht war? Am I correct in saying participle is an adjectival...

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...

A sentence may take the form of a single clause or be formed from several clauses. The typical clause has a noun phrase for a subject and a verb phrase for a predicate. The verb phrase may have another noun phrase or two embedded within it which serves as direct object or indirect object....

1. Noun or noun phrase - yes: 'I ate a (big ham) sandwich.' 2. Pronoun - yes: 'I erased him.' 3. Prepositional phrase - no , not really: in 'I looked at his girlfriend', '(his) girlfriend' is considered the direct object, with the particular verb requiring the preposition (a phrasal verb)....