By Noun phrases, Universities

Hi Anon, I had a similar lesson in the university but I still couldn't understand what you mean. Anyway, as I was taught predicates in a sentence follows this rule: Predicate= predicator + predicator complement. I guess your teacher want you to find the function and category names...

Dear Goodman,When I wrote "you could be right though!" I meant about the removing of the 'but' in "The store does not sell books as such, but it sells magazines ..."As I said in my first post, I don't use as such at all. The reason is its repetitive nature hiding behind as such. If I have to...

Well, Fowler is a little out of date now, and I imagine that many of his suggested inversions would be considered overprecious, but:1-- B is not a correct correction of A. Fowler is saying that A should read 'To these causes may be attributed our disasters'-- thus placing the subject, disasters,...

Anonymous wrote: Thank you so much. As I asked originally, are they just the rules of law that have been enacted by a body of scholars in semantics or linguistics or what? How can a noun be designated as a proper noun? A noun just does not appear as a proper noun naturally or does it? I am not...

Hello Krish(1) Princess Anne is the daughter of Queen Elizabeth and a noted equestrian performer. Last year, the 37-year-old daughter of the Queen and her horse finished fourth in the National Hunt at Hereford. Please compare it with "Princess Anne is the only daughter of the Queen and her...

Yulysess wrote:Hi creolejazz, The rule you search lies, I think, in the grammatical unit called "Nominal Clauses/ Nominal-ing clauses, that is, participle clauses", or as pieanne illustrated above, gerunds. The commomest type of participle clause is that which has no subject. When a is subject...

Hello As you said -ish and -like are both used as a suffix to form an adjective from a noun. And you are quite right that -ish gives a negative sense to the adjective. OED says "X-ish" is usually an adjective to mean "having the qualities of X" (e.g., boorish, foolish, swinish). But some words...

Hi creolejazz, The rule you search lies, I think, in the grammatical unit called "Nominal Clauses/ Nominal-ing clauses, that is, participle clauses", or as pieanne illustrated above, gerunds. The commomest type of participle clause is that which has no subject. When a is subject required,...

'In regards to' and 'regarding' function as prepositions and need a noun or noun phrase as an object, Jesse. They mean 'on the topic of', 'concerning'. They do not work as conjunctions, or in expressing cause and effect. I can work it into your sentences, but it is an awkward way to express...

I got one reply to my original post from Mister Micawber, but no reply to my second post. So here is the discussion so far. (Is there a better way to bring a thread back for further...