By Noun phrases, Verbs

Very generally it seems that it is a sentence + conjunction + sentence structure. Nora went mad (first sentence) + becasue (conjunction) + France lost... (second sentence) As for the analysis, (I haven't dome sentence analysis for months so I may have forgetten somethings. last...

Not here. No. when to clauses are indirect questions, hence, they function as noun phrases:I didn't know when to change trains.Be sure to tell him when to change trains.They don't function as adverbs:*You have to walk when to change trains.*Be sure to read the posted signs when to...

Actually, "to find / that the house had been burgled," is a non-finite clause. The non-finite verb "to find" (infinitive) takes as its object a finite clause ("that the house has been burgled").The object slot could have been filled with a noun phrase, or...

I wish to present a different way of looking at the sentences. One way of lowering fuel consumption is using public transport.(You can rewrite as: Using public transport is one way of lowering fuel consumption.) ' Using public transport' is a noun phrase having a dual-function role here:...

I don't know what the parser is or how it works, so I don't know how to answer the question. You have the subject, a linking verb, and the pred. nom, which is also a noun phrase.

You can lift the part set off by commas entirely out of the sentence. The soft curtain, hanging from a rod at the upper edge of the window, sways rhythmetically in the breeze, repeatedly brushing my chair. The soft curtain sways rhythmetically in the breeze, repeatedly brushing my chair. You...

Could you please explain how that is so? I saw "Mr. Doe having read the book many times" as a noun phrase of the second clause and "having read" as the verb phrase of the previous quote. How is it operating as a gerund?

Again, you are just making a long noun phrase. The modifying clauses like which defines your lifestyle do not supply the necessary verb.Here are some non-sentences like the ones you are making:The boy who laughed. What about him? The boy who laughed did what?You can change this to: The boy...

.I'm not sure that I can make it much easier for you, but--Be (the copula) and other linking verbs have the SVC structure, where C is a noun or an adjective:He is a man.He is handsome.Nouns can be single-word nouns, noun phrases or noun clauses, and they all work into an SVC sentence in the...

Hello Anonymous,In your sentences there is no adjective phrases.A phrase is a name used in the english grammar to label a group of words which acts as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence,which means that you need at least two words to label some part of the sentence a phrase. Words,phrases...