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I just feel the following sentence a little hard to find  where its main subject and verb are. And where is the subordinate cluase in it?Shopping in the Internet is for those consumers for whom going to malls has become a nightmare.LCChang

Maple · Accepted Answer

Lcchang
I just feel the following sentence a little hard to find where its main subject and verb are. And where is the subordinate cluase in it?

Shopping in the Internet is for those consumers for whom going to malls has become a nightmare.

LCChang

IMO

main subject : Shopping (in the internet)

verb: is (linking verb)

predicate: is for those consumers...

subordinate clause: for whom going to malls has become a nightmare, (going to malls has become a nightmare for those consumers. antecedent: consumers, this subordinate clause functions as adj

Lcchang · Answer

Gee....thanks.

LC

Inchoateknowledge · Answer

Shopping in the Internet is for those consumers for whom going to malls has become a nightmare.

S = Shopping in the internet
V = is
O = those consumers
SC= defining relative clause = for whom going to malls has become a nightmare = predicative adjective.

going to malls has become a nightmare = NP = subject complement?
for whom going to malls has become a nightmare = PP

Please, somebody who knows:

Maple · Answer

Going to malls has become a nightmare for whom = S

going to malls =NP

has =Infl

become a nightmare for whom =VP=V(become) +NP(a-Det, nightmare-N) +PP(as a complement: for whom)

Just doing an exercise, I don't know whether it's right or wrong.

maplethis subordinate clause functions as adj

Maybe I should have said "this subordinate clause functions as attributive". I don't know the differences among "adj." "attributive" and "complement"

Please look at this sentence for me.

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