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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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Complete syntactic analysis of the clause. Help proofreading.

|--------s---------------| |-v-| |-----------------d.O------------| |i.O--|
The rationing of food was a remarkably prescient move by Urza.

Is this correct, or am I off by miles? I would be ever so grateful for any sort of help!
  

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You’re right about the subject and the verb, but the sentence contains no direct or indirect object. The noun phrase a remarkably prescient move by Urza is predicative complement to the verb be .

  • You’re right about the subject and the verb, but the sentence contains no direct or indirect object.
  • The noun phrase a remarkably prescient move by Urza is predicative complement to the verb be .
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You’re right about the subject and the verb, but the sentence contains no direct or indirect object. The noun phrase a remarkably prescient move by Urza is predicative complement to the verb be.

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