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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,...

Can anyone help with what word classes the underlined words belong to (conjunction, preposition, determiner, etc)?When she was 16-years-old, she ran away from home and moved to London, then New York to work as a nurse. During her time in New York, she kept in contact with her sister. She said “I...

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...

There are two catagories of English grammar books avaliable in the market. 1) Prescriptive : This kind of books teach how to correctly use various english words, how to use various forms of Tense/Determiners/Prepositions etc.. I belive Muphy's books belong to this catagory. You may also want...