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Re: What is the SUBJECT of this sentence?

jazzmaster — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:00:13 GMT

Avangi
jazzmaster
"is a rock music icon" is supposed to be the main clause of this sentence that contains the verb "is" and the complement "a rock music icon".

Hi, jm.

Getting closer. The captioned phrase cannot be a clause because it has no subject. As CJ says, it's the predicate. Just as in the case of a simple sentence, a clause must have both a subject and a verb (predicate). There's one of them in your sentence: "which employs the detatchable etc." (It's surprising a sentence of this length has only one.) The subject is the relative pronoun "which," and the verb is "employs."

- A.

Avangi
You are right. I stand corrected. The predicate as opposed to the attributive. I meant "is a rock music icon" is the main theme of this sentence which the writer wanted to state, despite its subject being a mile long. Thanks for pointing it out.

So, in the long run, if someone insists the subject of this sentence is
"One" or
"the whole thing from One of ... pick ups" or
"the Stratocaster"
he/she is all correct, because there are grammatical and linguistic views/answers to the "What is the subject of this sentence"?

Re: What is the SUBJECT of this sentence?

Avangi — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:10:15 GMT

jazzmaster
"is a rock music icon" is supposed to be the main clause of this sentence that contains the verb "is" and the complement "a rock music icon".

Hi, jm.

Getting closer. The captioned phrase cannot be a clause because it has no subject. As CJ says, it's the predicate. Just as in the case of a simple sentence, a clause must have both a subject and a verb (predicate). There's one of them in your sentence: "which employs the detatchable etc." (It's surprising a sentence of this length has only one.) The subject is the relative pronoun "which," and the verb is "employs."

- A.

Re: i need help from grammar experts

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:31:48 GMT

a.Noun.
b.Relative pronoun
c.Article
d.Regular adjective
e.Pronominal adjective
f.Regular adverb
g.Preposition â single word
h.Preposition â group of words
I.Conjunction â single-word co-ordinate
j.Conjunction - subordinate
k.Verbal - gerund
l.Verbal - infinitive
m.Appositive
n.Expletive
o.Predicate - smiple
p.Complete subject

Taking a correspondence course involves a great amount of self-discipline on the part of the student.
When someone studies at home, there are always distractions to overcome: telephone calls from friends, favourite soap operas on TV, or sunny days beckoning outside the window. People who need to interact with their teacher on a daily basis may not wish to study a course on their own.

However, there are also definite advantages to studying âby mail.â A student may progress as rapidly as he or she wants to, instead of moving along at the same pace as a classroom full of people. A few missing high school credits can be picked up quickly, so the need to spend an extra year in school is eliminated. Instructors, or markers, are available to answer questions by telephone or e-mail.

Here are some of my answers: ( I'm having a tough time with this exercise... I need some help)

a.Noun. : home, window
b.Relative pronoun: who
c.Article: a
d.Regular adjective: sunny
e.Pronominal adjective: their
f.Regular adverb: quickly
g.Preposition â single word : on, from
h.Preposition â group of words: on the part of/instead of
I.Conjunction â single-word co-ordinate: so, and, or
j.Conjunction â subordinate: when
k.Verbal â gerund : taking/studying
l.Verbal â infinitive: to spend, to answer, to study
m.Appositive: telephone calls from friends, favourite soap operas
n.Expletive: there (and it ) , there (are also)
o.Predicate â smiple: involves a great amount of self discipline
p.Complete subject: Taking a correspondence course

Hope this helps,

Visnja

i need help from grammar experts

market-huxley — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:21:25 GMT

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 thanks.

Question 2 : In the following paragraphs, find one example of each of the parts of the sentence listed below. Lable each example clearly. You will have a total of 16 items listed as examples.

a.Noun.
b.Relative pronoun
c.Article
d.Regular adjective
e.Pronominal adjective
f.Regular adverb
g.Preposition â single word
h.Preposition â group of words
I.Conjunction â single-word co-ordinate
j.Conjunction - subordinate
k.Verbal - gerund
l.Verbal - infinitive
m.Appositive
n.Expletive
o.Predicate - smiple
p.Complete subject

Taking a correspondence course involves a great amount of self-discipline on the part of the student.
When someone studies at home, there are always distractions to overcome: telephone calls from friends, favourite soap operas on TV, or sunny days beckoning outside the window. People who need to interact with their teacher on a daily basis may not wish to study a course on their own.

However, there are also definite advantages to studying âby mail.â A student may progress as rapidly as he or she wants to, instead of moving along at the same pace as a classroom full of people. A few missing high school credits can be picked up quickly, so the need to spend an extra year in school is eliminated. Instructors, or markers, are available to answer questions by telephone or e-mail.

Here are some of my answers: ( I'm having a tough time with this exercise... I need some help)

a.Noun. : home, window
b.Relative pronoun: who (?)
c.Article: a
d.Regular adjective: sunny (?)
e.Pronominal adjective: (?)
f.Regular adverb: quickly
g.Preposition â single word : on (the part of the student) from (friends)
h.Preposition â group of words: full of , on the part of (?)
I.Conjunction â single-word co-ordinate: (?)
j.Conjunction â subordinate: (?)
k.Verbal â gerund : beckoning , taking, (?)
l.Verbal â infinitive: to spend, to answer, to study
m.Appositive: (?) (?)
n.Expletive: there (and it ) , there (are also)
o.Predicate â smiple: involves
p.Complete subject: (instructors, or markers ) (?)

How are my answers , and what would be the missing ones.. thanks

Re: Relative clause

Mister Micawber — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:51:39 GMT

Him is informally acceptable-- the objective pronouns are widely used in predicate position: It's me! I'm older than him, etc. In this situation, however, the personal pronoun (he) and the relative pronoun (who) have the same referent and should appear in the same case in careful writing: he who.

Re: Different questions

Nef — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:35:06 GMT

Anonymous wrote:

1.Combine each set of simple sentences below to produce the kind of sentence specified in parentheses.     1) People begin to recycle. They generate much less trash.   (Complex.) <No idea, but TIP: Using subordinating conjunctions!>          2) Environmentalists have hope. Perhaps more communities will recycle newspaper and glass. Many citizens refuse to participate. (Compound-complex.)   <No idea>

2. What is Grammar and style checkers?

3. If the verb consists of only one word and is not a form of 'be', start the question with a form of of 'do' and use the plain form of the verb.     What is the plain form of a verb? Is that like " begin, start" , not: began, started; has begun...

4. A compound construction combines words that are closely related and equally important. It makes writing clearer and more economical because it pulls together linked information.   1) What does "economical" here mean?     2) " It pulls together linked information", Is the word: linked here a participle, it modifies information? like an adjective?

Thanks for replying!

Hi,

Iâll try! I think you need to review a good grammar book or ask your teacher for some help. I wanted to review subordinating conjunctions, so I looked at a book I like (The One-Minute Grammarian by Morton S. Freeman, Penguin Books, 1992). There may be a later version of this book.

1.Combine each set of simple sentences below to produce the kind of sentence specified in parentheses. 1) People begin to recycle. They generate much less trash. (Complex.) <No idea, but TIP: Using subordinating conjunctions!>

1. According my book, a subordinating clause is

a group of words that has a subject and a predicate but cannot stand alone because it does not constitute a complete sentence. (On its own, it is not a complete sentence.)

Subordinating conjunctions INTRODUCE (start, begin) subordinating clauses.

Some examples of words that can be subordinating conjunctions:

after, although, as, because, before, even though, except, if, since, so that, than, that, though, unless, until, when, where, whether, while

I think you could say something like

When people begin to recycle, they generate much less trash.

After people begin to recycle, they generate much less trash.

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2) Environmentalists have hope. Perhaps more communities will recycle newspaper and glass. Many citizens refuse to participate. (Compound-complex.) <No idea>

Although many citizens refuse to participate, environmentalists have hope (or "hope" instead of "have hope") that more communities will recycle newspaper and more communities will recycle glass. This seems somewhat awkward and long to me, but I think it is a compound-complex sentence!)

If I were to use the words without worrying about the type of sentence, Iâd just say

Although many citizens refuse to participate, environmentalists hope that more communities will recycle newspaper and glass.

Environmentalists hope that more communities will recycle newspaper and glass, even though many citizens refuse to participate.

I looked at another book for this question. (Mosaic: A Content-Based Grammar by Patricia K. Werner).

Compound sentences are two simple sentences joined (connected by) a conjunction (and sometimes by a comma, also)

Some common conjunctions: and, but, for, or, nor, so, yet

Examples of compound sentences:

I like coffee and I like tea. ("I like coffee and tea" is NOT a compound sentence.)

They play baseball and they play basketball. ("They play basketball and baseball" is NOT a compound sentence.)

She makes cookies, but her daughter makes cakes.

He studies English, but he wants to study French.

Complex sentences have two or more clauses joined by connecting words (like after, although, because, that, who...) One clause is independent. The sentence also has one or more dependent clauses introduced by a subordinating conjunction or a relative pronoun.

Example:

Although she was sick, she did well on the test.

(This uses a subordinating conjunction.)

A compound-complex sentence combines the characteristics of both types of sentences.

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2. What is Grammar and style checkers?

They are software programs that will compare what youâve written against a standard of what is (programmed as being) correct grammar and correct style. Then they will show you where you have done something that doesn't follow their guidelines. My MS Word program has a grammar checker. I like the spelling checker a lot. Iâd probably like the grammar checker a lot better if English werenât my first language. Iâd like to have a good grammar check for Spanish.

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3. If the verb consists of only one word and is not a form of 'be', start the question with a form of of 'do' and use the plain form of the verb. What is the plain form of a verb? Is that like " begin, start" , not: began, started; has begun...

I'm not sure about the plain form of a verb. But it is easy to use do or does to start a question. Examples:

Do you swim?

Does he start tomorrow?

Does she work at home?

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4. A compound construction combines words that are closely related and equally important. It makes writing clearer and more economical because it pulls together linked information. 1) What does "economical" here mean? 2) " It pulls together linked information", Is the word: linked here a participle, it modifies information? like an adjective?

Here, "economical" means being able to express the same idea in fewer words, to express the same idea in a shorter way. (You "spend" or use fewer words.) Yes, as it is used here, "linked" is a participle, a verb form acting as an adjective describing "information". Think of conjunctions and relative pronouns (that, who, whose, which, etc.) as links.

Re: How to read this two sentence?

Philip — Fri, 26 May 2006 15:35:40 GMT

Alanou wrote:

First question: "We answer lots of different types of general English questions here". I want to know the use of the "here". Is it a attrib. of the "questions" or the whole sentence?

Second question: "Creatures that scare the socks off us-- Bjorn Carey". I don't know how to translate it and which is the subject and predicate and object.

Any help would be appreciated.

"That" is a relative pronoun referring to "creatures". "Scare" is the verb in the relative clause, "socks" is the object of "scare", and "us" is the object of the preposition "off". Be aware, also, that this is an incomplete sentence.

Re: Help with structure

chiefelectro — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:55:50 GMT

I would analyse it this way:

- "He swallowed a lot of new questions" - main clause; he = subject, swallowed = predicate, a lot of new questions = direct object

- "which had just occured to him" - subordinate clause, functioning as an object complement; internal analysis: which = relative pronoun, had occured = predicate, to him = direct object

- "and looked instead at the thousands of narrow boxes" - subordinate clause, functioning as an adverbial; internal analysis: and = conjunction; looked at = predicate; the thousands of narrow boxes = direct object

- "(which were) piled neatly right to the ceiling" - subordinate clause, functioning as an object complement; internal analysis: piled = predicate, neatly = adverbial, to the ceiling = adverbial.

ThatÂ´s the way I learned it and I hope itÂ´s correct...

Re: âNext to it is a different sign which says simply âBewareââ.

miriam — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:23:09 GMT

Hi, that's a cute name.

Your analysis of the sentence is correct for the most part.

"Next to it is" is the predicate of the sentence. The subject is the rest of the sentence, not just "a different sign". Are you familiar with "adjectival/relative clauses"? That's what you have after "sign".

"Which says simply 'Beware'" is part of the subject. It is a postmodifier of the noun "sign".
"Which" is the relative pronoun that introduces the relative clause and, at the same time, acts as subject of the clause, since it replaces "sign".

So the analysis of the relative clause is:
which: subject.
"says simply 'Beware'": predicate.
Within the predicate of the clause, "says" is the "head" (main verb), simply is an adverbial (an adjunct), and 'Beware' is the direct object of the verb "says".

You can have a look here for more information on relative clauses: Relative and adverbial clauses

Good luck.

Miriam

Re: Syntatic Analysis

miriam — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 05:15:51 GMT

Hi, Pastel

"The same thing occurred during the country's previous two cycical recoveries, when increased government spending, tax cuts and exports provided the fuel for rallies that proved to be short-lived."

1. You're not just on the right track; you're 100% right in that "increased" is a premodifier of "government spending".

2. You're not so right here!
There is an adverbial clause of time in your sentence ("when... short-lived"). The subject of the clause is "increased...exports"; and "when" and the construction "provided... short-lived" form the predicate.
Within the predicate of the dependent clause, "provided" is the main verb, and what scomes after it, until the full stop is the direct object of that verb.
So no, "provided" is not modifying "tax cuts and exports". Rather, "provide" the fuel dor something is what "increased government spending, tax cuts and exports" did.

3. "That" is a relative pronoun here. It introduces the restrictive relative clause "that proved to be short lived" as postmodifier of the noun "fuel". In this clause, which is within the direct object I mentioned in 1., "that" is the subject (it refers to "the fuel for rallies"). The rest of the clause is the predicate ("proved to be short-lived").

"Many largest companies have become serious about improving their performance, simultaneously reducing their debt and increasing the operating profits needed to pay interest."

You're right again.
"Needed" is a past participle with adjectival function in this sentence and it is part of the reduced relative clause "needed to pay interest". So, the modifier of "profits" is not just "needed", but the whole construction up to the end of the sentence. As a reduced clause, it is a non-finite clause in which "needed" is the head.

"Except in rhetoric, improving efficiency by enchancing competition has not been a priority."

1. I don't think you should replace "in" with "for" in this sentence. "Except in rhetoric" gives the idea that "improving efficiency by enchancing competition hasn't been a priority in other fields, but it has been in rhetoric".

2. "Efficiency" and "effectiveness" have different meanings, they are not words you can used interchangeably.
"Efficient" has to do with the actions, the skills, the processes or the potential involved/needed for achieving a desired result.
"Effective" refers to the actual results.

For a more accurate definition, and if you don't have a dictionary, you can have a look at this page (it's from Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Towards the end of the page, under the heading "synonyms", you'll find the differences between both words: effectiveness

Miriam

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Re: What is the SUBJECT of this sentence?

Re: What is the SUBJECT of this sentence?

Re: i need help from grammar experts

i need help from grammar experts

Re: Relative clause

Re: Different questions

Re: How to read this two sentence?

Re: Help with structure

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