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EnglishGirl Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Function

Could you please help me analyse these sentence in terms of its functional elements?

Scientists fear that the blazes may trigger another devastating cycle of forest fires, reducing the apes' habitat to the point of extinction.

While they were dressing their wounds, I tried to make a hole in the tin with the spiky end of the boat pole.
  

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We would like you to try the exercise yourself first, EnglishGirl. Post your analysis here and we will check it for you.
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I am not sure about this:

Is that the blazes may trigger another devastating cycle of forest fires, reducing the apes' habitat to the point of extinction a direct object? Or that the blazes may trigger another devastating cycle of forest fires is a direct object and reducing the apes' habitat to the point of extinction is an adverbial? (on
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EnglishGirlIs that the blazes may trigger another devastating cycle of forest fires, reducing the apes' habitat to the point of extinction a direct object? Or that the blazes may trigger another devastating cycle of forest fires is a direct object and reducing the apes' habitat to the point of extinction is an adverbial?
I’d call that the blazes may trigger
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I understand. Those terms are still unknown to me. We are only asked to find simple functions such as S, V, DO, IO, Adverbial and Subject and Objects complements. Still I am not sure what I would write as an answer. Maybe I'll leave it empty and underline only the functions I know.
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EnglishGirl Still I am not sure what I would write as an answer.
While AG's response is fine in one school of grammar, there are other ways of analysing sentences. I suggest that you try to master the system that is used by your teachers.
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