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Omnidemon Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
Is this an appositive or adverbial phrase?
Nora, of all the candidates who are running, is the best.
Is "of all the candidates who are running" an appositive or some sort of strange relative/adjective clause.
I think that it is not an adjective clause, because a relative pronoun is not found at the beginning of the phrase.
Any help will be appreciated!
Is "of all the candidates who are running" an appositive or some sort of strange relative/adjective clause.
I think that it is not an adjective clause, because a relative pronoun is not found at the beginning of the phrase.
Any help will be appreciated!
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Hi O, I'd vote for adverbial. For one thing, the phrase does not equal Nora , which condition I believe is necessary for an appositive. If you rearrange the sentence (if this is allowed) you have, Nora is the best of all the candidates who are running , and (I think) the phrase may be said to modify best , which is a predicate adjective (I guess you call it complement ), so it takes an adverb to modify an adjective.
- Hi O, I'd vote for adverbial.
- For one thing, the phrase does not equal Nora , which condition I believe is necessary for an appositive.
- If you rearrange the sentence (if this is allowed) you have, Nora is the best of all the candidates who are running , and (I think) the phrase may be said to modify best , which is a predicate adjective (I guess you call it complement ), so it takes an adverb to modify an adjective.
- Regards, - A.
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Hi O,
I'd vote for adverbial. For one thing, the phrase does not equal Nora, which condition I believe is necessary for an appositive.
If you rearrange the sentence (if this is allowed) you have, Nora is the best of all the candidates who are running, and (I think) the phrase may be said to modify best, which is a predicate adjective (I guess you call
I'd vote for adverbial. For one thing, the phrase does not equal Nora, which condition I believe is necessary for an appositive.
If you rearrange the sentence (if this is allowed) you have, Nora is the best of all the candidates who are running, and (I think) the phrase may be said to modify best, which is a predicate adjective (I guess you call
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Is "of all the candidates who are running" an appositive or some sort of strange relative/adjective clause.Not an appositive. Not a strange clause either! Just an ordinary prepositional phrase.
Avangi has done most of the hard work already, showing that it's a matter of rearranging the sentence thus:
Nora is the best (candidate) of all the cand
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Ah! Thank you kind people!
I should have known that it is a prepositional phrase!
- It starts with a preposition
- It does not have a subject and verb; those are required to label it a clause.
I should have known that it is a prepositional phrase!
- It starts with a preposition
- It does not have a subject and verb; those are required to label it a clause.
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the prepositional phrase ends with candidates followed by a relative clause "who are running" (who's antecednet being candidates)
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