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Re: one of those who and one of whom

Avangi — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:08:53 GMT

"Who threw the stone?" (reply) "It is one of those who are angry." I don't think "one" is the subject of anything here. It's a predicate nominative, or "complement" of the verb "is." "It" is the subject of the sentence, and "who" is the subject of the relative clause, "who are angry." The relative clause modifies "those," which is object of the preposition "of." Those who are angry are a group of angry people, one of whom threw the stone. But you would have to rephrase the sentence in order to make "one" the subject.

"Nobody in this group is angry. It is one of those who is angry." (Note that "who" may be singular or plural.) This time, "one" is still the verb complement. "Who is angry" is still a relative clause. The chief difference between these two interpretations lies in the answer to the question, "In the relative clause, what does "who" refer to?" In the first interpretation it refers to "those." In the second one it refers to "one." But that doesn't entitle "those" and "one" to be called subjects.

Your sentence "It is one of whom are angry" has a couple of things wrong with it.

"One" is now the bona fide subject of the clause, "one of whom is angry." "Whom" is object of the preposition "of," but unfortunately it has nothing to refer to.

A group of people are partying in the next room, one of whom is angry. In this sentence, "whom" refers to "group."

Re one of those who / one of whom, the difference is often only a technicality. She decided to give it to one of those who love her. She decided to give it to one of those whom she loves.

The key lies in the subject and object of the clauses. In "who love her," "who" is the subject, "love" is the verb, and "her" is the object. In "whom she loves," "she" is the subject, "loves" is the verb, and "whom" is the object.

"Who" and "she" are nominative case, "whom" and "her" are objective case.

Best regards, - A.

Re: Appositive, direct object, indirect, predicate nominative, object of prepos

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:45:52 GMT

"Scurvy, a vitamin C deficiency, makes people weak and sore."

Scurvy is the subject, because it is the thing which "makes people weak and sore."
People is the direct object, because it is what scurvy is affecting, direct objects usually follow verbs.
Weak and sore are objective complements, because they modify the direct object, people.

"Scurvy was the leading cause of death among sailors in the early eighteen century."

Cause is the predicate nominative, because it stands for the subject, scurvy.
Sailors is the object of a preposition, because it follows the preposition among, and acts as the subject of the prepositional phrase.

"In 1753, James Lind, a Scottish naval surgeon, showed that citrus could cure scurvy."

Surgeon is an appositive for James Lind, because it describes him further, but is not essential to the sentence.

"When the British navy gave sailors fresh citrus juice, scurvy disappeared from their ships."

Navy is the subject, because it is the thing which gave.
Sailors is an indirect object, because they are the people to whom the juice was given.
Juice is the direct object, because it is the thing which was given.

"Today, scurvy is rare; it is usually seen only in very old or very young patients whose diets are deficient in vitamin C."

Vitamin C is an object of a preposition because it is the subject of the prepositional phrase, "in vitamin C."

When trying to diagram a sentence I think it becomes easier when you take out the unnecessary words. For example change "scurvy was the leading cause of death among sailors in the early eighteen century," to "scurvy was the cause of death among sailors in century." The latter is less senseful, but makes it easier to diagram the sentence's nouns. Of course that method wouldn't work as well when you're asked to diagram words other than nouns.
I hope this made some sense, and helped!
-Nathan

Re: Appositive, direct object, indirect, predicate nominative, object of prepos

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:09:28 GMT

Re: This is me or this is i

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:44:10 GMT

I am an EFL professor. Recently, when I used "I" in a predicate nominative (something like "It's I"), a fellow English instructor "corrected" me, saying "...me."

I agree with Rommie, who also uses this form as a matter of course. However, I have not really decided what to teach my students, some of whom would probably become hopelessly confused if told that both were acceptable. For the nonce, I just let them use whichever one they choose, without discussing it. I've found that most of them use "me," which is the only option given in our textbooks.

need some help with some english exercises.

market-huxley — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:13:04 GMT

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 â __ â words in the sentences as one of the following parts of the sentence:

1.Direct object

2.Indirect object

3.Predicate noun

4.Predicate adjective

A. I sent âherâ an âemailâ yesterday to comfirm the date of the meeting.

email=direct object. her=indirect object.

B. Elton John is a pop âicon.â

icon=predicate noun. But I'm unsure? Need help.

C. She seemed âhonestâ , but I was deceived

honest=predicate adjective.. the word itself is a adjective..ex:the honest doctor.

D. Give âmeâ a break!

me=indirect object. Ex: give what? A break, to whom ... to âmeâ

is this one right?

Exercise 2: copy each sentence; identify the simple subject and the simple predicate.

a. It is a shame! it=subject is=verb

b.Will you go to a movie with me? you=subject go=verb

c. Janet has been singing in the choir for years. Janet=subject .. the predicate I'm having trouble with... Is it "has been singing" or "singing" becuase "has been" are helping verbs. What is the "simple" predicate?

d. Through the dense bushes and into the open fields ran the white-tailed deer.

deer= subject. ran=verb

e. To win the gold medal is the goal of many athletes.

To win=subject is=verb (is this one correct?)

How are my answers looking?

Re: Predicate Nominative/ Predicate Adjective !HELP!

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:04:58 GMT

basicly predacate nominative is a noun in the predacate. so first you have to find the subject.

Example- Our teacher is Ms. Nancy.

^ ^

subject pred. nom.

predicate adjective is an adjective in the predicate.

Example- Ms. Nancy is our teacher.

^ ^

subject pred. adj.

so a predicate adjective or nominative is a word that tells whom or what the subject is.

p.s. i'm only 12 so cut me some slack on spelling!!!!!!!!!

Please help me!

KickingCat — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 20:58:20 GMT

Hi!

I'm having a re-examination in two weeks and I have a few questions that I don't really understand. First, analysing sentenses with NP, VP and so on.

i.e She fell vad be Np, vp right? and fell is the predicate verb and she is the subject. But what kind of a clause is this? It's a complete sentence but why?

two! explaning things like: "my boat leaks" and "my boat is leaking". the first one I believe is a perment damage that it always leaks? am I wrong here? The second one is ongoing so to speak? I don't know how to explain this properly on the exams.

three. How do one analyse following sentenses with np, vp and s pv etc?

"Henry VIII was born in Greenwich on June 28, 1491 in England, the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. In 1509 Henry VII died of tuberculosis and his son later became King Henry VIII. He turned 18 and married Catalina De Aragon of Spain a few months later. Catalina was the widow of the eldest brother Arthur, named after the legendary King Arthur whom Henry VII claimed, to be a lawful successor of."

Hope anyone can help me sort this thing out!

Thanx!

Re: Please look at this sentence for me.

Maple — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:56:38 GMT

Lcchang wrote:

I just feel the following sentence a little hard to find where its main subject and verb are. And where is the subordinate cluase in it?

Shopping in the Internet is for those consumers for whom going to malls has become a nightmare.

LCChang

IMO

main subject : Shopping (in the internet)

verb: is (linking verb)

predicate: is for those consumers...

subordinate clause: for whom going to malls has become a nightmare, (going to malls has become a nightmare for those consumers. antecedent: consumers, this subordinate clause functions as adj

Re: Predicate Nominative/ Predicate Adjective !HELP!

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:57:56 GMT

I have a question if you were writing steps for predicate nominatives or predicate adjectives would ur last step be the verb is asking what to whom???

Re: to or for"

CalifJim — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:46:04 GMT

No. There isn't really a rule, although generally the preposition that introduces the interested person usually depends on the adjective. There is usually a more-used preposition and perhaps another that is also acceptable.

useful to
essential to
helpful to
unpleasant for
exciting for

On the other hand, you may wish to put this into a broader context. The full form of statements in the pattern "useful to" (and others like it) may be thought of as

It is [useful / essential / helpful / ... ] TO/FOR the interested person FOR subject TO predicate.

where:
the interested person is the person to whom the situation is [useful / essential / helpful / ...]
and FOR subject TO predicate expresses the situation which is [useful / essential / helpful / ...]

When the interested person is normally introduced by the preposition FOR, there is potential for confusion between the interested person and the subject of the situation.

For his father to talk about the old country is exciting for Frank.
(FOR subject TO predicate) is exciting (FOR Frank), where Frank is the interested person.

Expressed differently,
It is exciting for Frank for his father to talk about the old country.
It is exciting (FOR Frank) (FOR subject TO predicate).

So when you say
It is useful to me
you are mentioning the interested person, but not the subject of the situation.

Example:
-- I can't see how writing down all those reminders can be useful.
-- It is useful to me. (The situation is "FOR me TO write down all those reminders", and it's omitted.)

When you say
It is useful for me
you are theoretically mentioning the subject of the situation, but not the interested person.
However, when the predicate of the situation is not mentioned, the person introduced by FOR is taken to be the interested person anyway!

So in "It is useful to him for me to answer the phones while he is away from the office", you cannot say, meaning the same thing in abbreviated form, "It is useful for me", but you can say "It is useful for him" or "It is useful to him".

Consistent with this is the fact that in English we cannot have:
*For whom is it useful to him to answer the phone while he is away from the office?

This is a fairly advanced topic in English grammar. For more information, consult Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English by Soames and Perlmutter. (Section 63)

In the meantime, you may simply want to remember that "useful to" is more usual and "useful for" is also acceptable.

CJ

PS. My apologies if, in responding to "What time is it?", I have explained how to build a clock!