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Hi,I woke up in cold sweat and sat straight up in our bed, and touched the side of my face. It had all been a dream or a nightmare. Moonbeams filtered through our curtains casting a soft light in the room. My husband lay on his side, snoring blissfully, unaware of my trouble dream. I snuggled...

This is a function, not a part of speech. That is, there is no such thing as a part of speech called a "predicate adjective". Most of your examples are nouns functioning as adjectives within a compound noun structure. If you need to know these for a class, check with the teacher or...

Hi Nao, and welcome to the forum. Is this a discussion for a class you're taking? Do you need to write an essay on this? You shoudl share your thoughts too. I can tell you one thing: I took an editing class, and was bitterly disappointed to find out that it was 90% grammar - and not only...

We were browsing movies on our cable box today, my roommate and I, and we ran across the movie called "Broken Flower," and he immediately blurted out "That is a grammatically incorrect statement." I begged to differ saying that not only is it grammatically correct, but...

I suppose I should be going with my gut instincts with these...Rose petals, rose bushes, water slide, etc, these are the predicate adjectives Ice water is a noun..I am still uncertain about 'we will be back in one hour'.... 'will be' is linking, so I suppose back is the verb.... ...

My problem is I second guess myself when it comes to determining parts of speech in a sentence. Here are the sentences I need opinions on, with the word in question underlined:Rose petals are one ingredient in potpourri.Over the weekend my father trimmed the rose bushes.We go to the park to use...

Haha, you gave me a funny picture in my head. If you told Paul to wash a weary face, he would probably be looking around for someone else's weary face to wash because you can't tell him to wash his own face that way; a tells the listener that we are being generic. If you wanted him to...

.Those (which are) in the type...The demonstrative is used. The object pronoun cannot be the subject of the dependent clause..

Dear MM, I sincerely appreciate your great explanation (The answer probably can't be found elsewhere. Not to mention the Grammar books). Some online dictionaries stated that the inflected forms of both the adjective and adverb of "heavy" are the same that confuse me....

1. Would say this is natural in terms of grammar. I think I asked a similar question before and I think Mr. M said something like the construction like "a yellow and red pen" first brings up a notion of one pen with two different colors. They are divided over a spiritual and literal...