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Carter Lee Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
How can I under stand this gramma?
Hi.
I ran across on the web 2 sentence what I can't understand gramma.
1.A catastrophic event is
something that causes a huge amount of damage and suffering.
Q. How does the 'causes' possibly written like that? I think the causes is written as a verb. How can it possibly written that cluase without subject? Does it make sense?
2.that it can be difficult for us to understand how likely certain things are to
happen.
Q. Here, 'to happen'. As I know basic senten e structure is consisted like S+V.
It means that subject + verb. But above sentence have something that I can't understand structure gramma.
Here, things are to happen. I think.this sentence is wrong gramma because 'to happen'. Things is subject and are is be verb but I can i understand ' to happen'?
I ran across on the web 2 sentence what I can't understand gramma.
1.A catastrophic event is
something that causes a huge amount of damage and suffering.
Q. How does the 'causes' possibly written like that? I think the causes is written as a verb. How can it possibly written that cluase without subject? Does it make sense?
2.that it can be difficult for us to understand how likely certain things are to
happen.
Q. Here, 'to happen'. As I know basic senten e structure is consisted like S+V.
It means that subject + verb. But above sentence have something that I can't understand structure gramma.
Here, things are to happen. I think.this sentence is wrong gramma because 'to happen'. Things is subject and are is be verb but I can i understand ' to happen'?
Top answer
The grammar of the sentence is correct. 'Something' is singular, so it causes a huge amount of... If it helps to analyse it as subject-verb-object, then "A catastrophic event" is the subject, "is" is the verb, and "something that causes a huge amount of damage and suffering" is the object.
- The grammar of the sentence is correct.
- 'Something' is singular, so it causes a huge amount of...
- If it helps to analyse it as subject-verb-object, then "A catastrophic event" is the subject, "is" is the verb, and "something that causes a huge amount of damage and suffering" is the object.
- The second sentence is complex, but is also correct grammar.
- Consider how it might be built up one stage at a time: A certain thing happens A certain thing is likely to happen Certain things are likely to happen We understand It can be difficult for us to understand We can understand how likely certain things are to happen It can be difficult for us to understand how likely certain things are to happen I hope that helps.
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The grammar of the sentence is correct. 'Something' is singular, so it causes a huge amount of...
If it helps to analyse it as subject-verb-object, then "A catastrophic event" is the subject, "is" is the verb, and "something that causes a huge amount of damage and suffering" is the object.
The second sentence is complex, but is also correct grammar. Consider how it migh
If it helps to analyse it as subject-verb-object, then "A catastrophic event" is the subject, "is" is the verb, and "something that causes a huge amount of damage and suffering" is the object.
The second sentence is complex, but is also correct grammar. Consider how it migh
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Carter LeeA catastrophic event is something [that causes a huge amount of damage and suffering].I ran across on the web 2 sentence what I can't understand gramma.I ran across two sentences on the web, and I can't understand their grammar.
The bracketed structure is a relative clause
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Hi CJ,
I have some confused with "A catastrophic event is something [that causes a huge amount of damage and suffering]".
And "The bracketed structure is a relative clause. 'that' refers to 'something', and 'that' is the subject of the relative clause. 'causes' is the verb."
As I know, when we use relative clause in sentence, the relative clause is made like this " S+V that
I have some confused with "A catastrophic event is something [that causes a huge amount of damage and suffering]".
And "The bracketed structure is a relative clause. 'that' refers to 'something', and 'that' is the subject of the relative clause. 'causes' is the verb."
As I know, when we use relative clause in sentence, the relative clause is made like this " S+V that
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Carter LeeAs I know, when we use relative clause in sentence, the relative clause is made like this " S+V that S+V". But my sentence are not using this form "S+V that V".The relative clause is relative-word + S + V, where the subject may or may not be the relative word 'that', 'who', or 'what', etc.
the man that I saw (I saw that = I s
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