By Verbs, Noun phrases

Re: Is this sentence correct?

Again, you are just making a long noun phrase. The modifying clauses like which defines your lifestyle do not supply the necessary verb.Here are some non-sentences like the ones you are making:The boy who laughed. What about him? The boy who laughed did what?You can change this to: The boy...

Re: Noun clauses after be

.I'm not sure that I can make it much easier for you, but--Be (the copula) and other linking verbs have the SVC structure, where C is a noun or an adjective:He is a man.He is handsome.Nouns can be single-word nouns, noun phrases or noun clauses, and they all work into an SVC sentence in the...

Re: adjective phrases

Hello Anonymous,In your sentences there is no adjective phrases.A phrase is a name used in the english grammar to label a group of words which acts as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence,which means that you need at least two words to label some part of the sentence a phrase. Words,phrases...

Re: conjunctive adverbs

Conjunctive adverbs, or simply "conjuncts", do exist, and are different from sentence adverbials.These conjuncts link sentences or paragraphs and usually appear at the beginning of a sentence. The adverbials Anonymous mentioned in their first post, those that tell us something...

Re: More than one

Hi LiJ,Perhaps you caught that error in my recent post. It was illogical for me to write "more than (one options)."Since I made that error, it is better for me to borrow this text from The American Heritage Book of English Usage to share with you: "Here’s a riddle: How can you have...

Help me with this sentence, please!

I have posted this question on another forum, but I haven't exactly received a satisfactory answer, so here it is: "I am all that you have home." (If anyone here is a fan of The Decemberists, then they might recognize this line!) "I" would be noun phrase one and the...

Re: That's when I knew our relationship was over.

No. The cleft sentence form of this statement isIt was then that I knew our relationship was over. The structure is Subject | Linking Verb | Subject Complement (in the form of a noun phrase)That | is | when I knew (that) our relationship was over. Compare: That is why I knew it was over. That...

Re: ENGLISH PHRASES

By the way, for each of those Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjectival Phrase, Adverb Phrase and Prepositional Phrase,you can find it in Wikipedia.org, just search on its search engine. such as for noun phrase http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_Phrase

ENGLISH PHRASES

hello guys... I am teslians who's taking english structure as one of my core subject for this semester...Anyone here know where I can find any good information or have a knowledge in English Phrases such asNoun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjectival Phrase, Adverb Phrase and Prepositional Phrase? I...

Re: not / neither / nor

Hi Avangi This is what I posted earlier in the same thread: To my ear, "I'm not a native or a teacher" is better than "I'm not a native nor a teacher." ( I remember reading that the latter is also correct. ) Your sentence: I'm not a native, nor am I a teacher. ...