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What types of phrase have been underlined?

ericsteef — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:45:46 GMT

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.

Hercule Poirot made his first appearance in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Participial Phrase called upon by his friend Hastings, to solve a most mysterious murder. This Belgian refugee from the First World War began his career as a police officer - Christie felt it only fitting that he had a professional background as it would explain his knowledge of police proceedings when he later became a private detective. He began his private career on the continent, which is where he formed his lifelong friendship with Hastings.

Poirot would be the first to call himself a great man - he has never been known for his modesty - but with such success in his career he is quite justified in his opinion! He finishes each case with a dramatic dÃ©nouement, satisfying his own ego and confirming to all, that he is truly âthe greatest mind in Europe.â His love of elegance, beauty, and precision, as well as his eccentric mannerisms are often ridiculed by the local bumbling policemen, but it is always Poirot who has the last word!

Christie's inspiration for Poirot lay behind the Belgian refugees who had escaped the war and made their home in the Parish of Torre. Christie had seen how the locals had opened their arms to them and how some, not understanding the British way of life, preferred to do things their own way. Christie decided to make Poirot more mature, a decision she would later regret; âthe result is that my fictional detective is well over a hundred by now.â

But not even Christie could ever have imagined how popular Poirot would become, nor how many stories she would write about him. He would star in thirty-three novels and fifty-four short stories, including some of Christieâs best such as Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Death on the Nile.

Poirot deserves his place in crime fiction history and this was certainly achieved on his death in 1975; Poirot became the only fictional character in history to be honoured with an obituary on the front of The New York Times!

(Adapted from the official Agatha Christie page (http://uk.agathachristie.com)

a professional background:

it is NP âaâ is indefinite article function as determiner.âProfessionalâ is adjective,â

a professionalâ is a premodifier of the noun phrase, âbackground âis the head noun of the noun phrase.

2-Christie's inspiration for Poirot :

it is NP âChristieâsâ is noun of the noun phrase form functions as Premodifier ,â inspirationâ the head noun of the noun phrase âfor Poirotâ i

2-Christie's inspiration for Poirot :

it is NP âChristieâsâ is noun of the noun phrase form functions as Premodifier ,â inspirationâ the head noun of the noun phrase âfor Poirotâ is Prep: P âforâ preposition âPoirotâ noun and all the phrase âfor Poirotâ is the postmodifeir of the noun phrase.

3-More mature:

adjective phrase in its comparative form consists of âmoreâ determiner function as premodifier of the adjective phrase and âmatureâ adjective is the head of the adjective phrase.

Could have imagined:

verb phrase consists of, âcouldâ modal auxiliary verb, âhaveâ grammatical auxiliary, imagined stative verb in past participle form and all the phrase in the present perfective tense.

In thirty-three novels:

prepositional phrase consists of preposition âinâ,â thirty three" Post determinerâ âNovelsâ is the head noun of the noun phrase.

Re: "than" as a conjunction

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:44:34 GMT

Hi, Thank you.

I have some questions on this though:

1. She has more money than her husband/her husband does/her husband has. --
I think all three can be used Yes
but wonder why this one can have 'her husband does' as a viable option, whereas the other two don't seem to have that option. They do, ie you can say 'than her husband does' in #2 and #3. I think you meant to refer here to 'her husband ~~does~~ has'. 'Has' is OK here, because it is the main verb, as in 'She has more money'.

I think we can have the pattern "She has more money than her husband does" because what is implied possibly is "She does have more money than her husband does," and I think it is OK to assume a possbility of the auxiliary verb "does"? being there.

Likewise, could we think in a similar or the same line for these? As long as we can fit the auxiliary verb (is this auxiliary anyway?), then, the structure "... more than he/she does" is possible?

I think these are stative verbs:

consider  She (does consider) considers it more suitable than her husband/her husband does
like:      She (does like) likes this food more than her husband/her husband does.
feel:   She (does feel) feels her cousin is nicer than than her husband/hur husband does.

So, my overall argument is that if you can fit the auxiliary verb "does" in the main (first) verb part, then you can use "does" in an appropriate place after the conjunction "than"; and only exception is when you have a "be" verb in the main part of the sentence like this:

Not good: She is feeling better than her husband does.

Re: Kinds of a verb

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:49:21 GMT

Am I right ot say that we also call verbs:

auxiliary verbs

modal verbs

regular verbs

irregular verbs

reflexive verbs

phrasal verbs

full verbs

stative verbs

Thank you

Martine

Re: in order to

Taka — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:28:05 GMT

Good. Thanks, Jim. But what about the other kinds of stative verbs, such as, say, 'have'.

We have this formula in order to solve the problem.

I think this sentence works, even without an auxiliary verb. Why do you think when it comes to stative verbs of perception it won't work?

Re: Question aboue state verbs

CalifJim — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:07:53 GMT

I know that "be" is a ~~state~~ stative verb.

Look at this one:

- I'm being asked.

If "be" is a ~~state~~ stative verb, we shouldn't put it in continuous tense.

be is not always a stative verb or a linking verb. Here it is an auxiliary verb in a passive construction.

Linking:

He is sick. (Not He is being sick.)
She is happy. (Not She is being happy.)
They are poor. (Not They are being poor.)

Auxiliary in a passive construction.

He is being teased. (From (Someone) is teasing him.)
She is being harmed. (From (Someone) is harming her.)
They are being broken. (From (Someone) is breaking them.)

CJ