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Eddie88 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
A sentence I would like analysed, please.
Their petrified faces make the life of a sailor seem horrifying.
Can you please see if my analysis of the above sentence is correct, please.
Analysis of the whole sentence:
Their petrified faces=subject/noun phrase
make=main verb
the life of a salor seem horrifying=object/noun phrase
Analysis of the subject/noun phrase:
Their=possessive adjective
petrified=adjective
faces=simple subject/noun
Analysis of verb:
make=main verb
Analysis of the object/noun phrase:
the=determiner/definite article
life=simple object-is their such a thing??
of a sailor=prepositional phrase/adjective modifier
seem=linking verb??
horrifying=adjective/object complement/predicate adjective??
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I have question marks next to parts I am most uncertain about. One question I have is if seem is a linking verb, then technically it is not needed along with 'horrifying' for the sentence to make sense, but it doesn't make sense without it... Also, the object of this sentence would be a noun clause if the verb seem had an S on the end, correct? (the life of a sailor seems horrifying).
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Their petrified faces, weak and skinny bodies and, worst of all, their dispirited mindsets, as they wonder whether they will ever return home, make the life of a sailor seem horrifying.
Now this is the whole sentence: does this seem alright? I know there must be a better way of writing it...
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Thanks.
Can you please see if my analysis of the above sentence is correct, please.
Analysis of the whole sentence:
Their petrified faces=subject/noun phrase
make=main verb
the life of a salor seem horrifying=object/noun phrase
Analysis of the subject/noun phrase:
Their=possessive adjective
petrified=adjective
faces=simple subject/noun
Analysis of verb:
make=main verb
Analysis of the object/noun phrase:
the=determiner/definite article
life=simple object-is their such a thing??
of a sailor=prepositional phrase/adjective modifier
seem=linking verb??
horrifying=adjective/object complement/predicate adjective??
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I have question marks next to parts I am most uncertain about. One question I have is if seem is a linking verb, then technically it is not needed along with 'horrifying' for the sentence to make sense, but it doesn't make sense without it... Also, the object of this sentence would be a noun clause if the verb seem had an S on the end, correct? (the life of a sailor seems horrifying).
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Their petrified faces, weak and skinny bodies and, worst of all, their dispirited mindsets, as they wonder whether they will ever return home, make the life of a sailor seem horrifying.
Now this is the whole sentence: does this seem alright? I know there must be a better way of writing it...
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Thanks.
Top answer
Well, my best guess is that "seem horrifying" is an infinitive phrase, with the infinitive marker "to" omitted. Horrifying (present participle of the verb- horrify) modifies life as a predicate adjective following the linking verbal "seem". Life is the subject of the infinitive.
- Well, my best guess is that "seem horrifying" is an infinitive phrase, with the infinitive marker "to" omitted.
- Horrifying (present participle of the verb- horrify) modifies life as a predicate adjective following the linking verbal "seem".
- Life is the subject of the infinitive.
- Their petrified faces (subject of the main verb) make (main verb) the life of a sailor seem horrifying (noun phrase, object of main verb make) A similar way we say this (where the "to" is not omitted) is Their petrified faces make the life of a sailor to be regarded as horrifying
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Well, my best guess is that "seem horrifying" is an infinitive phrase, with the infinitive marker "to" omitted.
Horrifying (present participle of the verb- horrify) modifies life as a predicate adjective following the linking verbal "seem". Life is the subject of the infinitive.
Their petrified faces (subject of the main verb) make (main verb) the life of a sailor seem h
Horrifying (present participle of the verb- horrify) modifies life as a predicate adjective following the linking verbal "seem". Life is the subject of the infinitive.
Their petrified faces (subject of the main verb) make (main verb) the life of a sailor seem h
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