In Possessives^x, Nouns^x, Verbs^x

. The bracketed part is the object of the verb enjoy.The clause I watch TV when expressed as a gerund construction becomes my watching TV. That is, the subject becomes a possessive adjective, and the verb becomes a gerund. (The rest stays the same. TV is still the direct object of watch.)...

d_say:Certainly.1) I calling his name. Juliet, from the balcony, called his name - Romeo, Romeo, where are you, Romeo?His is the possessive case of the pronoun "he", modifying "name". - His name is Romeo. My avatar is AlpheccaStars. Name is usually singular. People have only...

.Poirot deserves his place in crime fiction history . Poirot is proper noun functioning as subjectdeserves is verb -- OKhis-- possessive adjective place is noun -- OK, object of verb in-- is preposition -- OKcrime -- noun as adjective modifying 'fiction' (could be considered an...

Poirot deserves his place in crime fiction history . Poirot is noun functioning as subject deserves is verb his possessive pronoun place is noun in is preposition crime i am not sure about it ,it may be a noun fiction i am not sure of it,it...

Let's take this one step at a time:We listen to Fagin. --> This is a complete sentence (main clause); "listen to" is the phrasal verb, and Fagin is the object.But could Fagin be doing? talking, screaming, yelling, running, and so on. For example:Fagin's loud talking drove...

Panesh:Sunrise (one word) is a noun.In your sentence, the word "rise" is a verb, not a noun. Every sentence must have a verb. English used to be a highly inflected language. Over the centuries, the inflections have been changed or lost. The addition of -s in third person singular,...

Thanks Huevos for you enlightment. But could we, just for the sake of arguement, allow me to examine the merit of this grammar point: It says: There are 7 words that are "always" adjectives: articles "a", "an" and "the" and possessive pronouns...

this is what I have so far, but I'm not sure where to go from here. Normal 0 A (article) twitch (noun) at (preposition) the (article) controls (noun) could (verb) swerve (verb) the (article) cat’ (noun), but (conjunction) the (article) driver’s (noun) hands (noun) could (verb) not (adverb)...

When you get to the "B's," don't put them all in one post, or you'll crash the site! - A.

I have given my opinion in an earlier post. Page 1 of this thread offers you a link to it (subject of gerund). As the gerund fluctuates between being a noun and a verb and resembles both to some extent, it stands to reason that a genitive is often possible before it and so is an adjectival...