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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
clatifying types of words/phrase
'All I wanted was for him to finish his project.' I am confused about what the words 'All I wanted' are in grammar roles. Is this a phrase? What is the subject? Is 'wanted' a past participle and how is it used?? I know that 'for him to finish his project' is an infinitive phrase used as a predicate nominative (noun phrase).
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"All" in this sentence is used in an idiomatic way, so it has no strict grammatical interpretation. Some other examples of this kind of usage are: That's all I wanted. All's well here.
- "All" in this sentence is used in an idiomatic way, so it has no strict grammatical interpretation.
- Some other examples of this kind of usage are: That's all I wanted.
- All's well here.
- All told, we've cleared over $10,000.
- I'm going all in on this.
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"All" in this sentence is used in an idiomatic way, so it has no strict grammatical interpretation. Some other examples of this kind of usage are:
That's all I wanted.
All's well here.
All told, we've cleared over $10,000.
I'm going all in on this.
In the quoted sentence you have a pattern of: "____ was _____ .", where the blanks represent nou
That's all I wanted.
All's well here.
All told, we've cleared over $10,000.
I'm going all in on this.
In the quoted sentence you have a pattern of: "____ was _____ .", where the blanks represent nou
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AnonymousI am confused about what the words 'All I wanted' are in grammar roles. Is this a phrase?all I wanted = all that I wanted ~ the only thing that I wanted (this, and no more than this)
Thus, (that) I wanted is a relative clause. wanted is the past tense of want, not a past participle.
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