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Eipjoo Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Are these two complements?
Given the sentence:
“That’s you done, my dear.”
This sentence means that you(Harry Potter) are done doing your robe fitting not the other boy (Malfoy). In the example, ‘you’ seems like complement. And ‘done’ is also another (or similar) complement of a past particle. Is this right view?
“That’s you done, my dear.”
This sentence means that you(Harry Potter) are done doing your robe fitting not the other boy (Malfoy). In the example, ‘you’ seems like complement. And ‘done’ is also another (or similar) complement of a past particle. Is this right view?
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I parse it like you, as far as I can tell. That (pronoun) is (copulative verb) you (predicate nominative) done (adjective modifying "you"). I agree that "done" seems to have something of the force of a predicate adjective there.
- I parse it like you, as far as I can tell.
- That (pronoun) is (copulative verb) you (predicate nominative) done (adjective modifying "you").
- I agree that "done" seems to have something of the force of a predicate adjective there.
- By the way, that sounds quite British to this American.
- We couldn't say it that way around here.
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I parse it like you, as far as I can tell. That (pronoun) is (copulative verb) you (predicate nominative) done (adjective modifying "you"). I agree that "done" seems to have something of the force of a predicate adjective there. By the way, that sounds quite British to this American. We couldn't say it that way around here.
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Thank you very much for your explanation. Yes, it might be called British for the sentence is from Harry Potter.
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