Hello, We don't split verb phrases like "must have been sleeping" because the whole phrase is acting together as the verb. (But, in this example, you could choose to see "sleeping" as a gerund acting as the predicate noun

Hello, Specter. In your sentence "Working for him doesn't interest me," "working for him" is the subject and the rest is the predicate. The subject happens to be a gerundive (or gerundial, as some call

My real question is whether "in my tying to explain how can I..." here is an attributive or an adverbial? It doesn't seem to be clearly either attributive or adverbial to me -- although you may want to consider it adverbial as

Hello,I am trying to teach my 3 Chinese students to perform grammatical analysis on English sentences (or what some people call "diagramming a sentence"). I am nothing close to a qualified English teacher; I only come from a heavily

I'm happy to hear it. He's ready to go there. I'm sorry to keep you waiting. to be+adjective+to infinitive - Object or The part of a compound verbal predicate? I'm curious about what you mean by "object." Your three

1a. Crews worked at containment, | keeping the oil from spreading. 1b. Crews worked at | containment, keeping the oil from spreading. At first sight, it looks a little ambiguous; 1b suggests "apposition", and 1a, a participial qualifier

My brother lives in India . The verb "to live" is intransitive and does not take an object. "I sleep in my bed ." These are prepositional phrases acting adverbially, modifying the verb and telling where. The verb "to

"Inadequacy" is the subject of your sentence, but there's no verb. Everything you've written describes what kind of inadequacy you're talking about, but you don't say what it does or what it is. An example of an action

#1 is correct. Now you have a dependent clause as the subject of the main verb "read". In the first posting, the verb in the main claue was "was", and the dependent clause (what I did) was a predicate object. The words before

A verbal is a non-finite form of a verb. frustrating is thus a verbal. All -ing forms of verbs are non-finite forms, and thus verbals. When the -ing form functions as a noun, we call it a gerund. Swimming is good for your health. When the -ing