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Re: sentence structures

Doll — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:40:52 GMT

5 Miss Kitty subject + was rude predicate + at the table adverbial +one day. adverbial

10 The earth subject+ revolves round predicate+ the sun. object

12 The sea subject + had predicate +many thousand sands.? object
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Adverbial --This sentence is gramamtically wrong.

14 Borrowed garments subject+ never adverbial+ fit non-transitive+ well. predicate complement

17 Islamabad subject+ is predicate + the capital of Pakistan. subject complement

21 The beautiful rainbow subject+ soon adverbial + faded away. predicate.

24 The dewdrops subject+ glitter predicate + in the sunshine. adverbial

25 I subject+ shot predicate+ an arrow + direct object+ in the air. adverbial

26 A barking sound direct object+ the shepherd subject + hears. predicate
Sentence Structure = Ambiguity exists in the sentence. --You can see such expressions in the novels.

I am not a grammarian and it has been a long time since I didn't look over this subject. Well at least I tried myself.

sentence structures

Redalert — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:09:52 GMT

PLEASE CHECK THE STRUCTURE OF THE SENTENCES TYPED BELOW DO CORRECT ME WHERE I AM MISTAKEN.

1 The crackling of the geese saved Rome.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Object

2 The boy stood on the burning deck.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Adverbial

3 Tubal Cain was a man of might.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Complement

4 The singing of the birds delights us.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Object

5 Miss Kitty was rude at the table one day.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Object Object

6 Stone walls do not make a prison.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Object

7 He has a good memory.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Complement

8 Bad habits grow unconsciously.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Complement

9 Nature is the best physician.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Complement

10 The earth revolves round the sun.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Adverbial

11 Edison invented the phonograph.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Object

12 The sea hath many thousand sands.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Adverbial

13 We cannot pump the ocean dry.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Object

14 Borrowed garments never fit well.
Sentence Structure = the predicate remains unclear.

15 The early bird catches the worm.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Object

16 All matter is indestructible.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Complement

17 Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Object

18 We should profit by experience.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Adverbial

19 All roads lead to Rome.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Object

20 A guilty conscience needs no excuse.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Object

21 The beautiful rainbow soon faded away.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Adverbial

22 No man can serve two masters.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Object

23 A sick room should be well aired.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Complement

24 The dewdrops glitter in the sunshine.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Object

25 I shot an arrow in the air.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Object Object

26 A barking sound the shepherd hears.
Sentence Structure = Ambiguity exists in the sentence.

27 On the top of the hill lives a hermit.
Sentence Structure = Subject Verb Adverbial
Sentence Structure = Subject=a hermit Verb lives Adverbial= On the top of the hill.

Re: Are these SIMPLE sentences?

Clive — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:02:36 GMT

Hi again,

But I seem to remember that there is a certain rule saying a simple sentence can have compound verb (or predicate).

Therefore, I have always thought that:

u I moved to Singapore and got a teaching position at a small college.

(simple sentence)

Whereas:

u I moved to Singapore, and I got a teaching position at a small college.

(compound sentence joined by a coordinating conjunction and a comma)

Any further comments on this, or maybe I've been mistaken all along? Yes, you have. The choices to use a comma and to omit the 'I' make no difference to the basic sentence structure.

A simple sentence has one main clause. Mary cooked dinner.

A compound sentence has two or more main clauses. Mary cooked dinner and Tom ate it.

A complex sentence includes a subordinate clause. Mary cooked dinner because Tom was hungry.

A compound-complex sentence is Mary cooked dinner and Tom ate it because he was hungry.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: SVC or SVA or SVOC or SVOA ?

K.O. — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:20:47 GMT

Hi,

1. He got himself into trouble. (SVOA)

I thought since âheâ and âhimselfâ refer to the same person, there is no need to put âhimselfâ into the âOâ category? They refer to the same person, however from two different point of views.

In a sentence like 'He covered himself in mud to avoid the infrared sensors.' it is much more plain to see that 'himself' is the object of the sentence and doesn't necessarily function as an appositive.

3. I am exhausted / angry / busy. Subject-linking verb-predicate adjective.

4. They look sick. (SVA?) Subject linking verb- predicate adjective.

If the sentences in (3) are SV + Adjective, why is âThey look sickâ = SVA? Doesnât this sentence mean: âThey are sickâ ?

They are sick and They look sick seem to have very similar meanings, and it looks like they have the same structure too but they don't express the same event.

6. I have something to do. (SVOC?)

Could you please explain why âto doâ is considered a complement and not an adverbial?

7. The duty of a student = S, is = V, to study is an infinitive phrase = object.

Question: do you mean all infinitive phrases can be classified as the object in all similar sentence structures? e.g. The objective of my plan is to succeed. In all similar structures, 'yes' Regards.

Re: Question on Foot of English Metric Poetry

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 13:07:26 GMT

(Mr M forgot to log in again!-- MM)

It is a matter of natural sentence flow and stress for meaning. Let's write it like a prose sentence:

I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree.

Spoken in conversation, sentences carry several levels of stress, not just stressed and unstressed. This sentence would probably be uttered with primary (main) stress on poem and tree-- these are the core words of meaning here-- and with secondary stress on lovely-- this adjective essentially defines the relationship between poem and tree. Below that would be tertiary stress on the simple subject (I), the simple predicate (see) and the negative word (never)-- notice that all of these stresses appear in the dependent clause, not in the matrix clause (I think), which only colours the core statement about poems and trees. (I should include a caveat that others may find differing stress patterns, and different intent would also produce others)

Trees is written in iambics, which as you probably know is a common rhythm of spoken English. To a certain extent, we tend to talk that way, and iambic stress patterns will impose themselves on our utterances. It is probably a circular phenomenon, actually-- we tend to speak in iambics, and so sentence structure and patterns of idioms and stock phrases are therefore formed and preserved in iambics.

Blank verse is iambic; it just does not rhyme. I think you mean free verse. Free verse depends on rhythms set, not by syllables, but by the cadence of phrases, images, and syntax. It should be relatively easy for you to learn to feel the difference if you recite aloud (as you should all poetry) this excerpt from Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach:

The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; -on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.

And compare it with some of Thomas Grey's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,
And all the air a solemn stillness holds,
Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds:

Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower
The moping owl does to the moon complain
Of such as, wandering near her secret bower,
Molest her ancient solitary reign.

Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Now, which one is free verse, and which is in metric verse?