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Thanks. This has helped me examine and understand the constituents of a sentence and, also see a sentence in its entirety; I never saw the relative pronoun as an object until you explained it this way. In regards to an earlier comment you made. Is this just a prepositional phrase, or is it a...

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...

Here is better punctuation: Also, when you have a verb form (no comma) and it is the ing form, (comma) is it always a non-finite/verbal (no comma) which means it is a phrase -either a gerund or particple? The main clause is: is it always a non-finite/verbal Introductory dependent clauses....

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...

Just guessing - " Why is the floor wet?" It's clearly not a pronoun. (It's an adverb, like where and when .) (I'd say both your examples use "who" as an interrogative pronoun.) - A.

Yeah, but I was wondering if every authority would agree to it. For instance I found this in the dictionary of modern english usage: The proper sense of the pronoun (or adjective) is "not the one nor the other of the two". Like either, it sometimes refers loosely to numbers greater...

Hi Everbody: I'll leave this discussion in your capable hands and offer you all some further reading and viewing for your pleasure Here are some links on participial phrases : www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNzKX-my5C0 (video) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OMHyyD6TsY&feature=related (video) ...

Well, the phrase "holding outgoing radiation.." .cannot be a clause. It is a phrase. As I recall my grammar lessons (a long time ago), a clause must have a subject (which can be a relative pronoun) and a verb, a phrase does not. A phrase can act grammatically as a noun, adverb, or...

. That is ridiculous, Anon. There (the adverb-- There's a cat over there ) and there (the existential pronoun-- There 's a cat over there ) are two different critters. .

Yes it is a participial phrase, since it begins with the present participle. These phrases can function as adjectives or adverbs. If it functions as a noun, the phrase is called a gerund phrase. It is easier to write a sentence with a dangling participial phrase if the phrase functions as an...