Adjective or Verb?

Thanks for the help in advance! :-)

It is a common rule that there should be a verb atleast either in active or passive. I think your question must be in passive voise which lost the verb..............I hope you might have understood. If not .........post again. Try to convert the sentence into active voice. I feel the sentence lost the auxiliary verb the actual place. And there is no subject too in your sentence. Read twice before

Thanks Toms Mathew.

"I think your question must be in passive voise which lost the verb."
I agree that the question miss the auxiliary verb as it is in passive voice.

"Try to convert the sentence into active voice."
OK. Let me convert it into active voice.
"Early in the sixteenth

There is another example.

"Chinese, the most ancient of living writing systems, consists of tens of thousands of ideographic characters, each character a miniature calligraphic compostion inside its own square frame."

Do the bold part miss a verb therefore a incomplete sentence?

Thanks again!

I really sincerely truly want someone to answer my questions.
Am I not polite enough or the question is not appropriate?
Please let me know..

Hello beatgmat and welcome to the forums,

Please be patient when you post if you don't get an answer within 10 minutes. Indeed, be patient if you don't get a response in 12 hours. Everyone who answers here is a volunteer. We answer posts as we have time.

The original sentence is not a a sentence because there is no main verb about peanuts. Everything that comes after it simply d

Thanks for the reply Barbara. I understand everyone here is nice and just try to help the others.
Indeed, I like this place so much. I was worried that my questions or my responses are not appropriate so I tried to seek people's attention and to correct it. I will be more patient next time.

Could you suggest a main verb to correct the sentense as an example to me?

Thanks so

"Native to South America, peanuts WERE introduced to Africa by Portuguese explorers early in the sixteenth century, where THEY WERE quickly adopted into Africa's argiculture, probably because they were so similar to the Bambarra groundnut, a popular indigenous plant."

Actually, I would write this as at least two sentences.

"Native to South America, peanuts

Thanks both of you. I understand it now.