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Ericsteef Posted 18 years ago
Linguistics Studies
Give a complete syntactic analysis of the clause
Poirot deserves his place in crime fiction history .
Poirot is noun functioning as subject
deserves is verb
his possessive pronoun
place is noun
in is preposition
crime i am not sure about it ,it may be a noun
fiction i am not sure of it,it could be adjective
history i am not sure of it also ,it could be a noun
Poirot is noun functioning as subject
deserves is verb
his possessive pronoun
place is noun
in is preposition
crime i am not sure about it ,it may be a noun
fiction i am not sure of it,it could be adjective
history i am not sure of it also ,it could be a noun
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Poirot deserves his place in crime fiction history . ) fiction-- noun as adjective modifying 'history' history-- noun, object of preposition [crime fiction] history-- 'crime' modifies 'fiction' and then 'crime fiction' modifies 'history '.
- Poirot deserves his place in crime fiction history .
- ) fiction-- noun as adjective modifying 'history' history-- noun, object of preposition [crime fiction] history-- 'crime' modifies 'fiction' and then 'crime fiction' modifies 'history '.
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Poirot deserves his place in crime fiction history .
Poirot is proper noun functioning as subject
deserves is verb -- OK
his-- possessive adjective
place is noun -- OK, object of verb
in-- is preposition -- OK
crime -- noun as adjective modifying 'fiction' (could be considered an adverb, I suppose, bu
Poirot deserves his place in crime fiction history .
Poirot is proper noun functioning as subject
deserves is verb -- OK
his-- possessive adjective
place is noun -- OK, object of verb
in-- is preposition -- OK
crime -- noun as adjective modifying 'fiction' (could be considered an adverb, I suppose, bu
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