How I can identify verb "is" from what is used in noun.

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Hi!I found this article on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/LearnEnglish.BritishCouncil"How much do you know about the history of English? You can find out all about it with Richard in English is Great as he visits the British Library to explore how the language has changed over the years! "At first, I couldn't find the subject of the verb "is" in "English is Great."Now, I got it."English is Great" is a name of something as whole.Even though, my though dwell on how I can identify verb "is" from what is used in a noun.Are there any specific rules?Thanks in advance.

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

Takehisa Tanakadwell on how I can identify verb "is" from what is used in a noun.

You can't if the punctuation is faulty. That's what has happened here.

This:

You can find out all about it with Richard in English is Great as he visits the British Library to explore how the language has changed over the years!

Should be this:

You can find out all about it with Richard in English is Great as he visits the British Library to explore how the language has changed over the years!

Or this:

You can find out all about it with Richard in "English is Great" as he visits the British Library to explore how the language has changed over the years!

CJ

Takehisa Tanaka · Answer

Thanks CalifJim.
I see.
When the punctuation is faulty, I will have to find out the missing the punctuation.

Anonymous · Answer

It would be helpful if the words, English is Great, were put in quotation marks or italicized, but you get this kind of thing all the time in writing, so you just have to figure it out from the context. This is difficult to fathom even for me, a native English speaker. I had to look it several times before I figured it out, more or less.

The first time you look at it, your eyes latch onto "with Richard in English," because that seems most natural, but after trying it out, you see that it doesn't make sense. Then you might try "with Richard in English is Great," but that doesn't make sense either. Then you try separating the prepositional phrases, "with Richard" and "in English is Great," and that seems to make sense, provided that "English is Great" is the name of something.

Takehisa Tanaka · Answer

Yes, when I encounter "is", I went back through to the start of the sentence looking for the subject of the "is", but I couldn't find the subject of the "is."
And then I got confused.
I got relieved to know that it is difficult to understand this sentence for even a native English speaker.
Thanks.

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