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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

what is the head o a sentence and how to know it ?
  

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I have never heard of the term 'head of a sentence' unless it simply means the beginning of a sentence.

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I have never heard of the term 'head of a sentence' unless it simply means the beginning of a sentence.
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The head of a basic sentence is a verb phrase, and the head of a verb phrase is, as you might expect, a verb. So it follows that the head word in any sentence is a verb. In these examples, the heads of the sentences are the underlined verb phrases, and the head words, the verbs, are in bold:

He is very handsome.
Ed saw something in the corner of t
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BillJThe head of a basic sentence is a verb phrase,
Thanks, Bill! They seem more like the tails of the sentences, though.

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