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Do you want a syntactical analysis or corrections to these sentences? Here is some syntax: Down the hillside (prepositional phrase, adverbial) were rolling (main verb phrase) the stones . (noun phrase, subject) In this part (prepositional phrase, adverbial) of the garden (prepositional phrase,...

3a) A cat ate the small animal. 3b) A cat is a small animal. The syntactic analyses of the two sentences are differents. In the sentence 3a) we have (s, v, do) while, in the second sentence 3b) we have (s, v (copular), sP). In 3a) “a cat “is noun phrase (a is determiner...

    A U.S. newspaper: -> subject, main clause   says -> verb, main clause. The rest of the sentence is a dependent clause, direct object of "says"     nation's two highest-ranking intelligence  officials  -> noun phrase, subject, dependent clause expect   ->...

Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments, complex phrase- adverb further dissected Through - preposition a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments compound noun phrase, object of preposition using herself as a reluctant...

A phone conversation: A: I hope...(trails off) B: What do you hope? A: I hope to see you soon! B did not say "How do you hope?" B said "What do you hope?" It requires an object - it's not an intransitive verb in this case. So the infinitive is a noun phrase, and is...

It -- S will make -- V them -- DO wise -- Object Complement The topic of complements is a broad and complex one, but here is a good basic introduction from an on-line source : Complement A complement is used with verbs like be, seem, look etc. Complements give more information about the...

Categories or Parts of Speech he - pronoun he - noun phrase (NP)* is - verb a - article nice - adjective person - noun a nice person - noun phrase (NP)* is a nice person - verb phrase (VP)* *These designations come from a system of analysis called 'transformational...

Could you give the book to Mike for me?" the book = direct object, yes Mike = indirect object, yes me = oblique object I haven't heard of it before. Correct? in "Mike gave the book to me" the book = direct object, me = indirect object, right? Yes. however, in "Mike pointed to my tooth" is "my...

Can a clause have three different objects? "Could you give the book to Mike for me?" the book = direct object, Mike = indirect object, me = oblique object Correct? in "Mike gave the book to me" the book = direct object, me = indirect object, right? however, in "Mike pointed to my tooth" is "my...

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. ...