Anon: Here is the main clause in your sentence: The Statue of Liberty may well be the best-known structure in the world. Statue of Liberty (proper noun) is the subject may be is the verb phrase. "be" is a linking verb (intransitive).

Can you give me an example of one where it is attached to the end of the clause as like a verb cluster. I cannot think of an example, except in normal passive voice. The car, drven at high speed straight into the concrete barrier, was crushed

I remember thinking a couple of times that your views on appositives were a bit skewed. I wanted to help, but hadn't thought about the subject for so long I was a little lost. I happened across that stray unanswered post and couldn't

For my brother to feel, that he does not know the right term, must seem a real impediment. Hi frankie, thanks for joining us. Welcome to English Forums. Nix the comma after "feel." The feeling is bad. If this were your sentence, the

I'd say no. In this case it sounds like casual conversation with two predicates: My father gave me a present made me happy. My father gave me a present - made me happy. I don't think we'd assume the missing relative pronoun ( that /

I don't think so. "as a unit" is a prepositional phrase, and answers the question "how"? It is adverbial, as is "syntactically", modifying "define". It ( subject) is (main verb) predicate: useful

I meant does a complementizer always begin a noun clause, not a noun phrase ?? Ah! Well, that's a different question, of course. Yes and no. Sometimes, as I think you know, the complementizer is omitted, so the theorists say it's the

The dealership that sold more cars eded up losing more money. =adjective clause My trouble was that they had never been there before=predicate nominative (noun phrase) Question: What type of pronoun is that in the second sentence? It's not a

Hi, 1) Question: A relative clause and adjective clause are the same thing, correct? 2) The dealership that sold more cars eded up losing more money. =adjective clause My trouble was that they had never been there before=predicate nominative (noun

Are phrases words that are additional parts to a sentence (namely advectives or nouns) which are not constituents of the actual clause No. Clauses are made up of phrases. The phrases of the clause are the constituents of the clause. Clauses