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You have made some very complex sentences, so it is not easy to explain without a lot of detail. Here is my analysis of the grammar in the second sentence. I am not an expert in grammar, so I invite other members of the forum to comment. It (pronoun, subject) is (main verb) probably (adverb,...

II'd be one to admit grammar is never my strong suit but I'm always eager to learn. I've read thoroughly the thread titled "grammar exercise" regarding noun clause/subordinate clause used as adjective, adverb, indirect object and so forth. I really had to strain my brain...

I'm taking a correspondence course. These are some of the exercises that I need to submit. So please I need help from grammar exerperts thnaks. Exercise 1: Identify each of the “ __ ” words in the sentences as one of the following parts of the sentence: 1.Direct object ...

Hi folks, I would like to ask the following question: is it possible for a prepositional phrase to function as a noun in a sentence? I am thinking of the following sentence: I told her about the meeting . My interpretation: Subject: I Verb: told Direct Object: about the meeting (I told what? ...

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...

Hi, Clive! Thanks for your attention. I see...My question was: Bob , someone's name, is the same as the personal pronoun he , when used in the beginning of sentences. Example: - Bob is a good student ( Bob = personal pronoun He ) , But when it appears after a verb as an indirect...

Doll wrote: "Mike pointed to my tooth" is "my tooth" indirect object or oblique? It is direct object I think. "I went to her." "her" is NOT indirect object, nor any other type of object, is it? Hmm I would say it is direct object. Let me disagree with the comments in pink. To put it...

Show me it! show = transitive verb me = indirect object it = direct object This sentence does not go against any grammatical rules. show it me when the objects change place, the indirect object has to be converted to a prep phrase: show it to me ...

Hi, I need to write a sentence in the following pattern, and I don't see how it's possible. The pattern is: adjective + direct object + helping verb + subject + verb No articles allowed? So, something like 'Great strength did he use' . This kind of odd word order seems very literary...

Hi Incho I agree with the previous posters completely; I would just like to elaborate a little from a non-native speaker's standpoint to a non-native speaker. We're both foreigners, right? Since there are hardly any inflections in English, the word order is very rigid and certain phrases and...