By Predicates

Re: Analyzing WH-questions the H&P CGEL way

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 and ." was meant to read "WH-questions...

Re: whats a complete predicate??

.A complete predicate is all of the sentence except for the subject.An appositive is 'an expression that has 'the same function and the same relation to other elements in the sentence , the second expression identifying or supplementing the first. In Washington, our first president, the...

Analyzing WH-questions the H&P CGEL way

Hi!I am reading Huddleston & Pullum's CGEL, and I've run into a problem. I don't understand how to analyze WH-questions with both subject-auxiliary inversion and . Couldn't somebody help me out?Let us take the sentence What did the Captain say? as an example. Here the Captain...

Re: "Three nuclei with one proton are known ?that? contain 0,1 and 2 neutrons, respectively."

to is an interesting suggestion, and that works.The original, with that, is a case of a 'heavy' relative clause 'floating' to the right. The underlying form isThree nuclei .The author got himself into a grammatical corner and chose this last version as the least...

English Grammer

I want brief explanations about following topics: 1- Narrations( Active Passive and Direct Indirect) 2- Clauses(Adjective,Noun,Adverb & Preposition clauses) 3- Predicate nominative.

Re: Experience

Your experiences as a teacher is valuble to the forum The MAIN verb is "to be" - it should be was, but whether it's is or was, it's the main verb (or "simple predicate," if you prefer), and it is not functioning as an auxiliary verb. (And no, I just was typing too...

Re: phrasal adjectives, chains of meaning, and hyphenation

actually, after examining this page, I'm convinced that they're drawing a secondary distinction..... they say that phrasal adjectives functioning as 'predicate adjectives' do not recieve hyphenation. I completely disagree with that opinion. example: a text-based...

Gerunds. Participles. Infinitives, Help?

I have to identify the verbal phrases (and verbals) and for participles determine whether they are present, past, or irregular.For gerunds whether they are subjects, direct objects, predicate nominatives, or objects of prepositions. And finally for infinitives determine whether they are nouns,...

Re: Predicate Nominative/ Predicate Adjecve !HELP!

ok thank you for your help. i will advise him to ask his teacher before turning in his work as what to do given on his work sheet it stated both PA and PN must be given for both answers and obviously he won't be able too, given there is NOT both in the sentences. And you are correct this...

Re: Predicate Nominative/ Predicate Adjective !HELP!

No, that is not right. One more time. PAs and PNs must modify the subject of the sentence:The balloon is red.-- red is a PA (a red balloon)The balloon is shiny.-- shiny is a PA (a shiny balloon)The balloon is shiny red. -- red is a PA and shiny is an adverb (NOT modifying balloon -- a red...