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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Modal Substitutes

0I have a sentence that I am trying to label parts of speech, but having some difficulty.The sentence is:02br
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01i00I am allowed to ride the roller coaster02i02br
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00I know that 'am allowed to' is a substitute for the modal verb 'may' as in:02br
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01i00I may ride the roller coaster02i02br
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00In the second example, I have 'I' as the subject, 'may' as a modal connected to the verb 'ride', and 'the roller coaster' as a noun phrase serving as a direct object of the verb.02br
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00My question is this: How do I label the parts of the substitute 'am allowed to' to make up a modal.02br
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00I have look through phrase structure rules and cannot find a rule that says modals may be phrases made up of other parts of speech.02br
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00Any Ideas?02br
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00Calcio 0-
  

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1b01i00to be allowed02i02b00 01b01i00to02i02b00 is a semi auxiliary, and the modal is an auxiliary ( modal auxiliary)02br
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01b01i00to be allowed to02i02b00 expresses modal or aspectual meaning.0-
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0 01i00I02i00 - pronoun subject02br
01i00am02i00 - linking verb02br
01i00allowed02i00 - predicate adjective02br
01i00to ride02i00 - infinitive complement of 01i00allowed02i02br
01i00the roller coaster02i00 - noun phrase object of 0
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01cite10CalifJim12cite11i10I12i10 - pronoun subject12br
11i10am12i10 - linking verb12br
11i10allowed12i10 - predicate adjective12br
11i10to ride12i10 - infinitive complement of 11i10allowed12i12br
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0 what is the pronoun of flowers. 0-
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0One flower - it/this02br
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00More than one flower - they/those/them/these0-

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