In Nouns^x, Adverbs^x, Noun phrases^x

Nobody said it was not a clause! There are several bits of terminology that are confusing. One set of terms applies to the individual words. 'house' is a noun . 'happy' is an adjective . 'quietly' is an adverb . And so on. Another set of terms applies to groups of words...

Note that the noun phrase contains a (relative) clause, and it is also contained within a larger clause in each case above. CJ P.S. Part of your frustration may be because not all writers use the terms ''phrase' and 'clause' (and others) completely consistently at all...

I suppose that phrases can be classified in different ways - I found a good reference with a similar classification. But the classification can be two-dimentional: the part of speech of its head, and / or its grammatical function in a given sentence. Noun phrases - includes special...

f 1 She stopped looking for a way out. 2 She stopped to look for a way out. my analying to these sentences is like this: sentence f1 : " She " pronoun functioning as subject " stopped " is main verb " looking " i don't know what is it ,it could be...

    A U.S. newspaper: -> subject, main clause   says -> verb, main clause. The rest of the sentence is a dependent clause, direct object of "says"     nation's two highest-ranking intelligence  officials  -> noun phrase, subject, dependent clause expect   ->...

When looking up tricky constructions or words, one can often go to the dictionary to view its proper usage. For example, www.dictionary.com shows this definition and usage note for nor: 1. (used in negative phrases, esp. after neither, to introduce the second member in a series, or any subsequent...

I obviously agree with Forbes: it depends on your first language. I have never had any problems with passive sentences, subjects and objects, the difference between countable and uncountable, etc. because those are all features I have in Italian too. It is not difficult at all for me to use...

I have to analyse the following sentence, but I'm really stuck... "Amanda's practical solutions of what had seemed an insoluble mystery descended on the family like a balm." I have to cut this sentence into constituents and cut those up in nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives,...

Hello, I tried to see your diagrams and ı couldn't find anything wrong with the second one. As for the first one, it is really difficult to read the elements but I will do it like this: butter and cheese: double noun phrases with butter and cheese: prepositional phrase ...

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...