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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Parsing

I am very sorry to have caused you offence.

I - a subject;
am - a predicator;
very sorry to have caused you offence - a complement (an adjective phrase where the adjective "sorry" is a head of the phrase, the adverb "very"a premodifier, and the non-finite infinitive clause "to have caused you offence" a postmodifier).

Is my parsing acceptable?
  

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Anonymous Is my parsing acceptable? Yes, though I would have called the final infinitive clause a complement of "sorry", not a modifier of any kind. CJ

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous Is my parsing acceptable?
  • Yes, though I would have called the final infinitive clause a complement of "sorry", not a modifier of any kind.
  • CJ
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AnonymousIs my parsing acceptable?
Yes, though I would have called the final infinitive clause a complement of "sorry", not a modifier of any kind.

CJ
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Thank you, CJ, for the reply.
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