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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Former and Latter

Would you please analyse the following sentence:
President George W. Bush meets with former President George H.W. Bush, President-elect Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton and former President Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington January 7, 2009.
  

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I don't think this is intended as a declarative sentence, but rather as a caption, or heading. It could also be an announcement of a planned future meeting, in which case it could be considered a correct declarative sentence. " The subject is "G.

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  • I don't think this is intended as a declarative sentence, but rather as a caption, or heading.
  • It could also be an announcement of a planned future meeting, in which case it could be considered a correct declarative sentence.
  • " The subject is "G.
  • W.
  • "; the verb is [to meet] (or possibly a compound verb "to meet with"); the direct object of the verb is the prepositional phrase, "with W, X, Y, and Z"; the prepositional phrase "in the Oval Office" is adverbial; and the two remaining prepositional phrases are adjectival.
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I don't think this is intended as a declarative sentence, but rather as a caption, or heading.

It could also be an announcement of a planned future meeting, in which case it could be considered a correct declarative sentence.

If this is describing a past meeting, we'd probably use the past tense, "met."

The subject is "G. W. B."; the verb is [to meet] (or possibly a com
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