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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Identifying subject complements

for a thousand of years, spaceflight seemed a dream
  

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Anonymous Identifying subject complements for a thousand of years, spaceflight seemed a dream As an aside, delete the "of," begin the sentence with a capital letter, and end it with a period. To my ear, the introductory prepositional phrase seems to modify the entire main clause adverbially. " The main (only) verb, "seemed," acts like a linking verb.

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  • Anonymous Identifying subject complements for a thousand of years, spaceflight seemed a dream As an aside, delete the "of," begin the sentence with a capital letter, and end it with a period.
  • To my ear, the introductory prepositional phrase seems to modify the entire main clause adverbially.
  • " The main (only) verb, "seemed," acts like a linking verb.
  • " "Dream" is a noun complement (and a subject complement).
  • "
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AnonymousIdentifying subject complements

for a thousand of years, spaceflight seemed a dream As an aside, delete the "of," begin the sentence with a capital letter, and end it with a period.

To my ear, the introductory prepositional phrase seems to modify the entire main clause adverbially.

The subject is "spaceflight." The main (only)
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