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Hi! allI am having some trouble in dissecting the following sentence into its constituent parts. I would appreciate your help in this matter.-- The sentence is -- All the action as it happens from Man Utd's friendly against Barcelona in Philadelphia, with the Red Devils up against the man they tried to sign, Ronaldinho.--I understand that Ronaldinho stands for "the man", while they is a proxy for Red Devils; Now my question is in this complex sentence, what is the independent clause, the subject, the adverbial phrase/ complement etc. I am looking for analysis of both the function and form of the sentence.Thank you.Nemo

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[nq:1]Hi! all I am having some trouble in dissecting the following sentence into its constituent parts. I would appreciate your ... subject, the adverbial phrase/ complement etc. I am looking for analysis of both the function and form of the sentence.[/nq]
I got the source of the sentence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/3120863.stm

Frankly, I can not break down the sentence. They are all fragments to me.

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[nq:1]Hi! all I am having some trouble in dissecting the following sentence into its constituent parts. I would appreciate your ... Utd's friendly against Barcelona in Philadelphia, with the Red Devils up against the man they tried to sign, Ronaldinho. --[/nq]
It's not a sentence, so don't worry about it. If you stick something like "Now we bring you ..." onto the front, then you will have a sentence/

-- Martin Ambuhl

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[nq:2]Hi! all I am having some trouble in dissecting the ... up against the man they tried to sign, Ronaldinho. --[/nq]
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[nq:1]I got the source of the sentence. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/3120863.stm Frankly, I can not break down the sentence. They are all fragments to me.[/nq]
It's a description of the page, not a sentence. It has an implied "This page describes" at the front. From the "as it happens", I'd guess that it's a page that got updated as the match progressed, whenever anything noteworthy happened.

It's somewhat interestin that "all the action" in a 90-minute match comprises a mere fourteen items, one of which is the start of the match and two others are substitutions. (The others are four goals, four saves, and three missed shots.)

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[nq:1]Hi! all I am having some trouble in dissecting the following sentence into its constituent parts. I would appreciate your ... adverbial phrase/ complement etc. I am looking for analysis of both the function and form of the sentence. Thank you.[/nq]
This sounds like an advertisement for the event. The verb might be "see" or "hear" and would be placed at the beginning ("See all the action..."). With one of those words, the sentence would more obviously be a command (so to speak).

Maria Conlon

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[nq:1]Hi! all I am having some trouble in dissecting the following sentence into its constituent parts. I would appreciate your ... Man Utd's friendly against Barcelona in Philadelphia, with the Red Devils up against the man they tried to sign, Ronaldinho.[/nq]
It's not a sentence, but a headline or a caption.

There is no main verb.
-- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

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[nq:2]Hi! all I am having some trouble in dissecting the ... both the function and form of the sentence. Thank you.[/nq]
[nq:1]This sounds like an advertisement for the event. The verb might be "see" or "hear" and would be placed at the beginning ("See all the action..."). With one of those words, the sentence would more obviously be a command (so to speak). Maria Conlon[/nq]
I like the parody that The Simpsons did of a commercial for a "Monster Truck Rally." A fan at alt.tv.simpsons posted a transcription of it, which can be seen in the Google Groups archives.

See http://www.google.com/groups?selm=336ACCDF.E53%40wco.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gpl ain

or

http://tinyurl.com/ixnf

The only complete sentences in it are at the end: "If you miss this, you better be dead! or in jail! And if you're in jail...break out! Be there! Be there! Be there!"

-- Raymond S. Wise Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com

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[nq:1]Hi! all I am having some trouble in dissecting the following sentence into its constituent parts. I would appreciate your ... Man Utd's friendly against Barcelona in Philadelphia, with the Red Devils up against the man they tried to sign, Ronaldinho.[/nq]
Snorra sentence, it's a noun.

Adrian

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