"Signs of GOP growing its spine again" How can all sentence be a noun phrase, friend ? I'm not sure what you mean here. I repeat: "signs of GOP growing its spine again" is not a sentence, but a noun phrase modified with

"I just wanted to add that it's not a sentence at all. It's only a noun phrase" How can all sentence be a noun phrase, friend ?

Normally, we do not think of relative pronouns as 'linking' clauses as much as we think of them as 'introducing' restrictive elements, 'relating' one clause to the other more than linking two of them. In your example,

Adj after noun: But in your first three sentences, the ‘–ing words’ are verbs, not ‘participles as adjectives’. Just because they are participle in form says nothing about their syntactic function. For a participle to be adjectival it needs

Nominal clauses' functions are comparable to those of a noun phrase, but they are introduced by subordinators. If you find a subordinator in your example, you will surely revolutionise linguistic science, my friend. If we hypothetically

Greetings, dear friends, there are several facts relating to this matter that can be unambiguously stated a priori. One of them concerns the definition of a lexico-grammatical class of the word 'unlike' (i.e. its word class/part-of-speech

Dear Pleasehelp, More than one of my friends is gone is correct. It follows grammatical concord (this kind of concord is usually obeyed with more than and many a ). The subject is notionally plural (=Many friends are gone), but the singular is

Hi Actually, the whole "one thing that I'd really miss" functions as a complement ( subject complement to be exact) here. By the way, relative clause is not a term to be used when speaking of sentence elements, like: subjects,

Not OK. In this one there's no relative pronoun that connects back to friends -- just who , which connects back to one . The result of this mistake is that the second part of the sentence is just a dangling fragment of a sentence.

Dear friend, Certain electronic devices is /are permitted. - only 'are' is possible (the verb agrees with the head of the subject noun phrase - 'devices', which is plural) ; You said you wanted/want me to do the dishes. -