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Daisy Black Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Please help me to define types of sentences…

1. There was no reply, but in a moment Miss Glaser began to play the opening bars of one of Schumann’s songs.

I guess it’s a complex sentence of 2 clauses :
1 - There was no reply and 2 - but in a moment Miss Glaser began to play the opening bars of one of Schumann’s songs.

But what types of predicates?

2. There was silence – simple, complete, two-member sentence . “Was” – predicate.
”Silence” – subject? Or “was silence” – is a nominal predicate(link verb + noun)?
  

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Daisy Black 2 clauses Correct. Both are main clauses. There is no dependent clause.

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  • Daisy Black 2 clauses Correct.
  • Both are main clauses.
  • There is no dependent clause.
  • As to sentences beginning with "there + be" (existential "there" or expletive "there") different texts give different analyses.
  • Consult your textbook.
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Daisy Black 2 clauses
Correct. Both are main clauses. There is no dependent clause.

As to sentences beginning with "there + be" (existential "there" or expletive "there") different texts give different analyses. Consult your textbook.

Here are some links:
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2) So, "there" - is a subject.
"was silense" - nominal predicate. Can it be like this?

The same is with "There was no reply" ?
"there" - is a subject?
"was no reply" - nominal predicate?
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1. There was no reply, but in a moment Miss Glaser began to play the opening bars of one of Schumann’s songs.


Two main clauses with no subordinate clauses form a compound sentence.

Clive
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Daisy Black2) So, "there" - is a subject.
Most grammatical texts do not consider the existential "there" to be a subject. It is a placeholder. The real subject is after the verb. What does your textbook say?

Clive is correct. A sentence with two or more main clauses is a compound, not complex sentence.
You need one or more dependent clauses for
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My textbook says that "there" - is a formal subject,while "silence" - is a notional one
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Daisy BlackMy textbook says that "there" - is a formal subject,while "silence" - is a notional one
That's one way of considering it. As has been noted, there is no universally accepted way of looking at this.
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