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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Parse a Sentence

Could someone tell me whether I have parsed the dollowing sentence correctly?

1. Rock and roll will never die.

“Rock and roll” is a compound subject that performs the action indicated by the complete predicate, “will never die”. “will” is a modal auxiliary verb that expresses the possibility of the subject’s existing eternally. "Die" is an intransitive verb, and is also the complement of "will".

Am I right?
  

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Anonymous “Rock and roll” is a compound subject Although it’s a compound subject in form, rock and roll is better thought of as a singular idea. You wouldn’t say *Rock and roll are my favorite music genre. Anonymous performs the action indicated by the complete predicate The subject performs no action in the sentence.

— RandomGuy

  • Anonymous “Rock and roll” is a compound subject Although it’s a compound subject in form, rock and roll is better thought of as a singular idea.
  • You wouldn’t say *Rock and roll are my favorite music genre.
  • Anonymous performs the action indicated by the complete predicate The subject performs no action in the sentence.
  • Anonymous "Die" is an intransitive verb and is also the complement of "will".
  • Right.
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Anonymous“Rock and roll” is a compound subject
Although it’s a compound subject in form, rock and roll is better thought of as a singular idea. You wouldn’t say *Rock and roll are my favorite music genre.
Anonymousperforms the action indicated by the complete predicate
The subject performs no action in the sen
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