operator

Hi,

She hoped that they would play Mozart quartet and they will.
She hoped that they would play Mozart quartet but they won't.

How can I decide which the operator is in a sentence?
predicate=operator+predication.
I'm not familiar with the term 'operator' as it is used here, but it sounds to me like it simply means the verb. Thus, the main

The subject can be identified by the question, 'who'.
No question elicits the predicate in a sentence.
However, if we divide the sentence into subject, operator, predication, the last constituent can be elicited.
What does it mean: "We shall consider the operator in more detail later, but for the present we may define it as the first or only auxiliary in the verb phrase in re

Hi again,

It's interesting, but odd, for me to discuss my language in such abstract terms. Let me try a few comments, although linguistics is not my field.

The subject can be identified by the question, 'who'. + Other possibilities, eg 'What?'
No question elicit

How can I decide which the operator is in a sentence?

The modal verbs (can, could, will, would, shall, should, may, might, must), be, and do and have in some circumstances are the operators. Their negated contracted forms are also operators (can't, doesn't, etc.) They are nearly equivalent to auxiliary ver

"We shall consider the operator in more detail later, but for the present we may define it as the first or only auxiliary in the verb phrase in realising the sentence element V."

We may define the operator (for now, i.e., until we explain more about it later) as the first* auxiliary in the verb phrase. This verb phrase is an element of the sentence called "V"; that

No question elicits the predicate in a sentence.

It seems more accurate to say that no single question-word elicits the predicate of a sentence, because one can ask:

What did you do?
What happened?

which are quite near equivalents to questions eliciting predicates.

On the other hand, there are unusual situations where