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"Published in the mid-1980s, with a Canadian’s mounting dismay at the religious resurgence she was observing over the border in the United States, The Handmaid’s Tale, a story of a theocratic state in which young women are treated as brood mares by a brutal revolutionary elite, has become a staple of the school curriculum in the English-speaking world." (The Guardian.)
In this complicated sentence, "The Handmaid’s Tale" is a subject, "has become" a predicator (a verb), "a staple of the school curriculum" a direct object.
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Anonymous Am I right? Not quite: 1. The subject is The Handmaid’s Tale, a story of a theocratic state in which young women are treated as brood mares by a brutal revolutionary elite.
- Anonymous Am I right?
- Not quite: 1.
- The subject is The Handmaid’s Tale, a story of a theocratic state in which young women are treated as brood mares by a brutal revolutionary elite.
- The underlined element is an appositive noun phrase forming part of the subject.
- 2.
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AnonymousAm I right?
Not quite:
1. The subject is The Handmaid’s Tale, a story of a theocratic state in which young women are treated as brood mares by a brutal revolutionary elite.
The underlined element is an appositive noun phrase forming part of the subject.
2. You can take has become as the predicator, "the
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