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I answered this question i just need someone check my answer and tell me if there a mistake and what is the correction of it. What types of phrase have been underlined? Analyse the phrases and give information about what elements they contain and what sort of words they consist of. 1 3...

I have to analyse the following sentence, but I'm really stuck..."Amanda's practical solutions of what had seemed an insoluble mystery descended on the family like a balm."I have to cut this sentence into constituents and cut those up in nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives,...

You could try color-coding your answers this way, for example:(1) the verbs; (2) the nouns; (3) the adjectives; (4) the adverbs; (5) the prepositions; and (6) the conjunctionsThe usage of the word 'the' in your sentences would normally be referred to as definite article or determiner.

I don't know why probation works while meeting does notIn my opinion, it's the nature of the noun, not the preposition. He is on a 3 months' probation. (probation: countable; a is OK.) He is at a 10 minutes' meeting. (meeting: countable; a is OK.) He is on 3 months' probation. ...

Yes, but I'm still not sure what you mean by 'grammatical names'. I don't think there is any particular name to the parts that you have underlined. The first two are infinitive structures (with full infinitives). The third is also an infinitive structure, but with a bare infinitive instead...

1. We really appreciate your giving us your opinion regarding this issue. OK 2. We really appreciate you giving us your opinion regarding this issue. Not OK What comes after the main verb ‘appreciate’ is a noun phrase ‘your giving …’. ‘Giving’ is a gerund acting as a noun. What precedes a...

The only thing that can come after a preposition to form a prepositional phrase is a noun phrase, usually a noun accompanied by its preceding determiner and perhaps an adjective. A relative clause may be added. The noun itself may be a gerund. If the element after the candidate for a...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using 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...

Good question. It points out some of the awkwardness, not to say fallacies, associated with some of our usual explanations of the grammatical machinery of English! It is true that it is difficult to find a noun phrase which can easily and smoothly replace meeting you in the example...