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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Noun Clause?

"The gift I needed was suddenly within my reach"

1) What grammar construct it "The gift I needed"?
2) Is that a dependent noun clause acting as a subject?
3) And what is "I needed" - Is needed just a simple past verb form or a past participle?

Thank you!
  

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Anonymous The gift I needed was suddenly within my reach . [ [the gift] NP [ (that) I needed ] relative clause ] NP is the subject of the sentence. (NP = noun phrase) I don't know of a system of terminology in which a subject is ever called "a dependent noun clause".

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous The gift I needed was suddenly within my reach .
  • [ [the gift] NP [ (that) I needed ] relative clause ] NP is the subject of the sentence.
  • (NP = noun phrase) I don't know of a system of terminology in which a subject is ever called "a dependent noun clause".
  • What you have here is just a noun modified by a relative clause.
  • In some methodologies, a relative clause is called an adjective clause, but never a noun clause.
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AnonymousThe gift I needed was suddenly within my reach.
[ [the gift]NP [ (that) I needed ]relative clause ]NP is the subject of the sentence. (NP = noun phrase) I don't know of a system of terminology in which a subject is ever called "a dependent noun clause". What you have here i
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Anonymous"The gift I needed was suddenly within my reach"1) What grammar construct it "The gift I needed"?2) Is that a dependent noun clause acting as a subject?3) And what is "I needed" - Is needed just a simple past verb form or a past participle?Thank you!
The gift (that) I needed - a subject [a noun phrase where "The gift" is a head of the phrase modified
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Anonymoussuddenly within my reach - a complement.
Two complements, actually.
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Mister MicawberTwo complements, actually
I think that it is an adverbial in which the adverb "within my reach" is modified by another, i.e. "suddenly".
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AnonymousI think that it is an adverbial in which the adverb "within my reach" is modified by another, i.e. "suddenly".
Not really. "suddenly" can be placed at the beginning of the sentence, so it's not anchored in any way to "within my reach". In my opinion it should be called a sentential adverb. "right within my reach" would be an example of the kind of
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