My understanding of the "simple predicate" is that it includes auxiliary verbs, so "will be writing."

Thanks, CJ, Phillip and Cool Breeze! -- So, if the verbal, present participle, frustrating, has auxiliaries preceding it, and has an object, then it becomes a part of the verb phrase. Also, if it has an object, then it is a part of the verb

I wanted to tell him to leave It has been frustrating living in the shadow of Victoria. -- In a different post, I received answers to the analysis of these sentences, and they confused me about whether verbals become a part of the verb or the

Oh, cool, thanks. Yes, the questions are from another forum from people who are asking these questions, and if I can't answer them, I get help from you . I love understanding this kind of stuff. I'm fine with answering punctuation

At times it has been frustrating living in the shadow of Victoria to the point that you want them to have a fight. Analysis of athe above sentence: -- Noun phrase = At times, it At times = form:Prepositional phrase Function:adverbial

why wouldn't to have be an infinitive? It's not a matter of to have by itself; it's a matter of to have in that sentence. It's not an infinitive in that sentence because the to and the have don't belong to the same constituent

Thanks. I believed that the infinitive was just the base form of the verb you find in the dictionary with the word to infront of it. So why wouldn't to have be an infinitive? With the case of the word worked. When it had the auxillary

1) Where are you? I've been waiting for 2 hours 2) I needn't have brought that milk I = subject need have bought = verb; present perfect tense, modal form (need is the auxiliary), buy is the main verb, bought is the past participle. not -

But I'm stuck with a sentence where "to do" is replaced by "not to do": a1) I suggest not doing X. (I reckon this is fine) a2) I suggest not to do X. (???) b1) I suggest Y shouldn't do X. (I reckon this

Oh, I'm so sorry. First, I posted in the wrong forum. This topic would be more appropriate in ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum. Could the moderators move it there, if possible? Second, "WH-questions with both subject-auxiliary inversion