In Prepositions^x, Determiners^x, Pronouns^x

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,...

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...

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...

Right or wrong?“For a moment1, I even thought2 that this was some sort of test3 and that this woman was someone from the head office4, testing my loyalty5.” 1: Prepositional phrase used adverbially. 2: Main clause 3: Dependant clause 4: Dependant clause 5: Participial...

"Suchlike" cannot be used as a preposition; it's either a determiner or a pronoun, I'm afraid...

As Clive says, i.e. adverb, preposition and participle, plus pronoun: It would be me/you/something/their, etc. Plus conjunction: It would be because/so that/but/when, etc. Plus determiner: It would be my/your/his/her/,etc.

Inchoateknowledge wrote: Andy = S cleans = V his = determiner, posessive pronoun teeth= O by brushing and gargling = PP in adverb function (denounscribes the way you do something) "brushing and gargling" is a compound noun with two gerunds. They are also the objects of the preposition:...

Andy = S cleans = V his = determiner, posessive pronoun teeth= O by brushing and gargling = PP in adverb function (denounscribes the way you do something) "brushing and gargling" is a compound noun with two gerunds. They are also the objects of the preposition: by. "and" is a co-ordinator.

"Which" is pronoun or determiner, acting as subject or object in its clause. "Which" also a question word to show what kind of information is wanted. In addtion to, " which" can be used to modify nouns and some pronouns--to identify things. Furthermore, " which " can also be conjunction. which...

Mister Micawber wrote: After imported doesn't work. The various subordinators are restricted to the types of clauses they can introduce. After cannot introduce -ed nonfinite clauses, whereas when and once can. There are all kinds of caveats. For instance, in -ing nonfinite clauses, after...