Parsing Two Sentences
Dear teachers,
I am trying to parse the following two sentences. Could you help me with it?
1) Our heartfelt thanks to you, Simon, and your stellar team.
Is "Our" the subject of the sentence? Or, is the noun phrase "our heartfelt thanks" the subject? But I am not sure what the predicate is here. And, is "you, Simon, and your stellar team" the complement?
2) We are singularly beholden and forever indebted to all of you.
Am I right to say, "We" is the subject and "are singularly beholden... of you" is the predicate? Can I say "all of you" is the complement ?
Thank you very much for your time and help.
Top answer
1) Our heartfelt thanks (go) to you, Simon, and your stellar team. I'd treat this as a verbless clause, where "go" is ellipted. In which case, the subject is the noun phrase "our heartfelt thanks".
- 1) Our heartfelt thanks (go) to you, Simon, and your stellar team.
- I'd treat this as a verbless clause, where "go" is ellipted.
- In which case, the subject is the noun phrase "our heartfelt thanks".
- The predicate is the verb phrase "(go) to you, Simon, and your stellar team".
- "To you, Simon, and your stellar team" is a preposition phrase that functions as complement of "go", and the noun phrase coordination "you, Simon and your stellar team" is complement of the preposition "to".
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1) Our heartfelt thanks (go) to you, Simon, and your stellar team.
I'd treat this as a verbless clause, where "go" is ellipted. In which case, the subject is the noun phrase "our heartfelt thanks".
The predicate is the verb phrase "(go) to you, Simon, and your stellar team".
"To you, Simon, and your stellar team" is a preposition phrase that functions as complem
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