Grammar Structure

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could you analyse structures of sentences below?

1. Nebraska has floods in some years, in others drought.

2 Whatever students wanted to go right into th workplace after graduation would choose the vocational track.

3. The upper branches of the tallest trees produce more leaves than do other branches.

4. All of us having taken the seats the meeting began.

5. The Second World war was so terrible, during which time a large number of families were separated.

6. She insisted that the reporter not to mention her as his source of information.

BillJ · Accepted Answer

You try first, and someone will check your answers.

Nhật Bình · Answer

Actually, I have no idea of these structures. So could anyone here help me analyse them?

AlpheccaStars · Answer

Nh?t Bình1. Nebraska has floods in some years, in others drought.

Words can be omitted if the meaning is clear. It is very advanced English to know when this can be done.

Nebraska has floods in some years, (and) in other (year)s (there is ) drought.

Nh?t Bình2 Whatever students wanted to go right into the workplace after graduation would choose the vocational track.

This is a very rare use of the word "whatever" as a determiner. Whatever students means "The students that".

I seldom use "whatever" this way.

Whatever ambitions he had were destroyed by the accident that paralyzed him.

(All the ambitions that he had....)

Nh?t Bình3. The upper branches of the tallest trees produce more leaves than do other branches.

The normal subject-verb order is sometimes inverted in than-clauses. But it is very rare.

This is normally what you see:

The upper branches of the tallest trees produce more leaves than other branches do.

Nh?t Bình4. All of us having taken the seats, the meeting began.

This is an absolute clause (also called an absolute phrase because of the non-finite verb.) It is loosely connected to the main clause. Your example needs a comma.

https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/grammar/sentences/what-is-an-absolute-phrase.html

Nh?t Bình5. The Second World war was so terrible, during which time a large number of families were separated

That is a poor sentence. It has a misplaced phrase.

The Second World war, during which time a large number of families were separated, was terrible.

Nh?t Bình6. She insisted that the reporter not to mention her as his source of information.

That is an incorrect sentence. Here are corrected versions.

She insisted that the reporter not mention her as his source of information.

She asked the reporter not to mention her as his source of information.

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