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Mehdi kord Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Noun phrase after a noun phrase

What is the grammatical function of the bold noun phrase?

she trembled, her heart an open book.
  

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mehdi kord What is the grammatical function of the bold noun phrase ? she trembled, her heart an open book. It's the complement of 'her heart', just as it would be in "Her heart was an open book".

  • mehdi kord What is the grammatical function of the bold noun phrase ?
  • she trembled, her heart an open book.
  • It's the complement of 'her heart', just as it would be in "Her heart was an open book".
  • CJ
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mehdi kord What is the grammatical function of the bold noun phrase?
she trembled, her heart an open book.

It's the complement of 'her heart', just as it would be in "Her heart was an open book".

CJ

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