In Present perfect^x, Nouns^x, Adverbs^x

1) Where are you? I've been waiting for 2 hours2) I needn't have brought that milkI = subjectneed have bought = verb; present perfect tense, modal form (need is the auxiliary), buy is the main verb, bought is the past participle.not - adverb that - demonstrative pronoun refering to...

.I suppose that you want your sentences PARSED. I'm not going to do all of them for you. I'll do the first one:Where -- adverbare -- linking verb, simple presentyou -- pronoun subjectI -- pronoun subject've been waiting -- verb, present perfect progressivefor -- preposition2 --...

Yes. I think I understand what you are getting at -- although for non-native speakers some of the guidelines may appear to be circular in nature. According to Palmer (The English Verb), besides the plain vanilla 'passive' with an agent introduced by by (The man was killed by his...

Equative sentences have the term to be identified first, a form of BE, and then the term which identifies the first term. The result is XYZ identifies the result in terms of XYZ; it specifies the result as XYZ. XYZ is the result identifies XYZ as the result (as opposed to a cause, for...

I would (tentatively) parse the problem slightly differently: 1. She read the letter again. He seemed from the words on the page to have felt some grief when his mother died; but who could be sure. OK. So can we substitute a noun of physical feeling for ‘grief’? 2. She read the letter again....

(1) and (2) are fine, Hanuman. They are not adverbs, they are noun objects of the preposition 'since'; the whole prepositional phrase serves as an adverbial. They represent, as I am sure you can see, the extent of time after last week and yesterday, respectively, not those expired time frames...