http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aNouns+tag%3aAdjuncts+tag%3aGenitivesSearch results for 'tag:Nouns tag:Adjuncts tag:Genitives' matching tags 'Nouns', 'Adjuncts', and 'Genitives'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/SentenceAnalysis/hzgmk/post.htm#611160Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:15:05 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:611160miriamWhat you call your attempt is almost perfect Eddie You re good at grammar One minor correction I d made would be the category acting as subject it is a clause not a phrase It has a verb even if not a finite form and it has modifiers for that verb as it the whole construction were a predicate There is one mistake that is a bit more serious the verb to be is a linking or copulative verb so it doesn t take objects What would be an object if we had a transitive verb will be a predicative also subject complement or subjective complement when we have a linking verb That s what the prosecutor s criteria in deciding how they try these young adults is There are no objects in your sentence But there s more to analyse in the predicative which is a complex noun phrase just like all that I can see in your other thread the pre modifier category determiner prosecutor s pre modifier category noun in the genitive case criteria head category noun in deciding how to try these young adults post modifier category prepositional phrase In the prepositional phrase you have in prepositiondeciding how to try these young adults object of the preposition also called oblique object category gerundive clause deciding head of the object of the preposition how to try these young adults direct object of deciding category non finite clause to try head of the direct objectthese young adults direct object of to try how adjunct of mannerYou can do a further analysis of the subject of the sentence as well now to answer your questions 1 Why isn t the direct object of the sentence a clause I m sorry to disappoint you but it is a noun phrase Why Because it has a noun criteria as its head 2 Why can t try be the main verb of the sentence Because the action of trying is neither performed by the subject nor received by it Also it doesn t agree in number person with the subject You can t say the following Determining the crime and the likelihood of a repeat purchase try It just wouldn t make any sense And you d be leaving the second part of the sentence without a verb it needs Try has to do with the young adults Miriamhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/ParticiplePhrase/cqqnj/post.htmSun, 30 Jul 2006 16:35:14 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:250504inchoateknowledgeEating a hearty breakfast we prepared for our long journey Why is the underlined part of the sentence a participle phrase eating is a non finite verb not a gerund but the whole phrase may be considered as a verbal noun gerund phrase not a verbal adjective participle phrase All the guests having arrived the host started the party All the guests Is it the subject of having arrived having arrived is a participle phrase and an adjectival phrase I think Being aware of my glaring inadequacy I tried to work very hard Being aware I think it is a participle phrase and an adjective Of genitive is a preposition and my inadequacy is is object of the preposition Being aware of my glaring inadequacy is also a participle phrase if I am not mistaken what is glaring s lexical category I think inadequacy is the object of the possessive pronoun in singular first person and glaring is the adjectival modifier of the object Being aware of my inadequacy being glaring I tried to work hard Here being glaring is the objective complement is it Also It is a participle Glaring is an disjunct and has a different syntactical role from that one when it precedes inadequacy Honestly the recent measures introduced by the the local government in Myseria seems too harsh with poor people paying taxes almost more than their income honestly is an adverbial and it is also a disjunct expressing the writer s attitude the recent measures subject recent and Myseria set the scene of the action So they are adjuncts introduced by the the local government participle phrase and introduced is a participle in Myseria is it an adjectival complement besides being a prep phrase seems is a linking verb copula what is too with poor people paying taxes almost more than their income adverbial prep phrase almost more than their income objective complement http://www.englishforums.com/English/AdverbialObjectives/bvwxc/post.htm#105725Sun, 05 Jun 2005 09:32:17 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:105725paco2004Hello Roro OED says about the etymology of cost as follows a OF coster couster mod coûter Pr and Sp costar Pg custar It costare L constôre to stand together stand firm abide be settled or fixed stand at a price cost f con together stôre to stand The construction of this verb is idiomatic and for its analysis it is necessary to go back to Latin Hoc constitit mihi tribus assibus was literally this stood to me in three asses The dative of the person has in Eng become an indirect object to being never expressed the Lat locative ablative or genitive of the amount or price became a simple object in French and remains an adverbial object in English in being never expressed Hence a natural tendency to view the noun expressing the price as a simple object and the verb as transitive That it is yet really intransitive is shown by the fact that it has no passive either with the price or the indirect object as subject this cost me nothing cannot be changed into nothing was cost me by this or I was cost nothing by this The adverbial adjunct may also be expressed by an adverb as much little more less dear ly cf L carius constat even here the tendency is to look upon much little etc as adjs used substantively As for the relation between and I have never bought a prostitute in my life and so I don t know anything about it I m sorry paco