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Jigneshbharati Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Identify the subject

I just read on Facebook the following quote:
There is a time to be a nice person and there is a time to say enough is enough.How do I identify the subject of the sentence? And Is " to be " acting as adjective or adverb?
  

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There is a time to be a nice person there is a time to say enough is enough. " There comes at the front of the sentence, but it is not the grammatical subject. " A time to be a nice person exists.

  • There is a time to be a nice person there is a time to say enough is enough.
  • " There comes at the front of the sentence, but it is not the grammatical subject.
  • " A time to be a nice person exists.
  • ("Exists" gives the name of the construction, Existential .
  • A time to say enough is enough exists.
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There is a time to be a nice person
there is a time to say enough is enough.

These are examples of the "existential there."
There comes at the front of the sentence, but it is not the grammatical subject.
The subject is the noun "time."
A time to be a nice person exists. ("Exists" gives the name of the construction, Existential.
A time to say enough is

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