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You have made some very complex sentences, so it is not easy to explain without a lot of detail. Here is my analysis of the grammar in the second sentence. I am not an expert in grammar, so I invite other members of the forum to comment. It (pronoun, subject) is (main verb) probably (adverb,...

Hello, Twinkletoes.No, that's not what I'm saying. "things to do" is the direct object of "have", the main verb of the sentence. "To do" would be a clause (a non-finite one) even if "things" weren't there or if it had some other type of...

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...

I'm taking a correspondence course. These are some of the exercises that I need to submit. So please I need help from grammar exerperts thnaks. Exercise 1: Identify each of the “ __ ” words in the sentences as one of the following parts of the sentence: 1.Direct object 2.Indirect...

Anonymous wrote: Identify the functions of verbs in the sentence below by labelling them Vt (transitive), Vi (intransitive), Vd (dative), Vf (factitive), Vc (copulative) & Vs (sense) Q1: He was last seen (vs) being given a large amount of money outside a bank. Q2: In the late nineteenth...

It -- Swill make-- Vthem-- DOwise-- Object ComplementThe topic of complements is a broad and complex one, but here is a good basic introduction from an on-line source:Complement A complement is used with verbs like be, seem, look etc. Complements give more information about the...

Categories or Parts of Speech he - pronoun he - noun phrase (NP)* is - verb a - article nice - adjective person - noun a nice person - noun phrase (NP)* is a nice person - verb phrase (VP)* *These designations come from a system of analysis called 'transformational...

Hi, I think the situation is that you are being taught grammar using terms that I was not taught. Ways of analysing sentences change and evolve, so I do not mean to suggest that there is anything wrong with the way that you have been taught. It's just different, to me. It seems to me that it's...

Hi, I have the following grammar questions. Do please help me with the correct answers to the following questions. Thanking you in anticipation, Regards, Manu. 1. Choose the sentence that illustrates the correct agreement of subject and verb. A. Either the students or the teacher have...

Well, there are the copulative verbs (to be, to become, to seem ...); they have a predicate, not a Direct Object or an attribute adjective. But there are verbs that semantically express a non-action: to stay, to sleep, etc... What is the context of your "non-action verbs"? Grammar?