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Danilagid Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Parsing problems

Hi all! My name is Daniela and I'd really appreciate it if you can help me with some sentence analysis problems I've come across... I'm trying to analyse this sentence:

I can’t imagine what made him do that

And I'm having problems with the VP of the Od Clause, as I'm not sure how to analyse it... My attempt is:

[S(what) P(made Oi(him) do) Od(that)]

But I'm so not sure about it... I could give it more tries, but none makes sense to me... any suggestions?

Thanks a lot!!
  

Top answer

[ what made [ him do that ] ] subjects of clauses. Direct object . CJ

— CalifJim

  • [ what made [ him do that ] ] subjects of clauses.
  • Direct object .
  • CJ
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[ what made [ him do that ] ]

subjects of clauses. Direct object.

CJ
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That makes so much sense!

Thanks a lot Emotion: smile
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What do you think about this one?

[S(The new concept which has appeared in popular speech) P(refers to) Od(using social networks)]

I'm not sure about the underlined bit... Would you consider it an Od?

That's my last query
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DanilagidI'm not sure about the underlined bit... Would you consider it an Od?
No, because it's introduced by a preposition.

refers | to using social networks

verb | prepositional phrase with a gerund object

CJ
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DanilagidWhat do you think about this one?

[S(The new concept which has appeared in popular speech) P(refers to) Od(using social networks)]

I'm not sure about the underlined bit... Would you consider it an Od?

That's my last query
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