"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

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

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.

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

Dear speakers of English. I have a question concerning English relative clause which had long been my headache. Here is my sentence: He is the son of Mike, who is my best friend. My question is: which one should be the antecedent of the