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In response to the questions posed in the first post of this thread, "the officer" is NOT the subject of the sentence regardless of whether the sentence is active or passive. "The officer" is undoubtedly the doer of the action in both sentences, but it is the subject only in...

In these different constructions, different types of things are ellipted. 1) My father bought me a cell phone which is as small as a mouse. . Fish is the direct object of caught . Many is an adjective modifying fish , and the first as is an adverb modifying many . Again, the second as is a...

What is the word sucks in " Homework sucks " ? Is it a verb or an adjective? If it is a verb, what does homework suck? This brings up an excellent point, and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English language. The question at hand is " Does an English...

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html Probably no "grammatical error" has received as much scorn as "misuse" of pronoun case inside conjunctions (phrases with two parts joined by is an object that requires object case, it does not mean that is an...

Hello, Guest. Your first sentence is ugly to analyse! ~L~ "Being coined" is the predicate of the noun phrase "the term 'Henmania'", and both constructions together, "the term Henmania being coined", is the direct object of "led to". I think the sentence is somewhat difficult to analyse...