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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
Preposition as a noun?
0 Hi, 02 br
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00 I was told that something like the one below is an inverted structure, then what the second one that is underlined? 02 br
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00 Among the students signed up for the contest are John and Sam. -- Inverted of "John and Sam are among he students signed up." And this supposed to show the prepositional phrase is not a noun (acting as a subject)? 02 br
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00 Then what is this? Is this a noun? 02 br
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00 One of the best ways is to see them off is 01 u 00 with commas 02 u 00 . 0-
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00 I was told that something like the one below is an inverted structure, then what the second one that is underlined? 02 br
02 br
00 Among the students signed up for the contest are John and Sam. -- Inverted of "John and Sam are among he students signed up." And this supposed to show the prepositional phrase is not a noun (acting as a subject)? 02 br
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00 Then what is this? Is this a noun? 02 br
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00 One of the best ways is to see them off is 01 u 00 with commas 02 u 00 . 0-
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02 font 02 br 02 br 01 font 00 Among the students signed up for the contest are John and Sam. 02 font 00 It's just a statement. It isn't supposed to 'show' anything.
- 02 font 02 br 02 br 01 font 00 Among the students signed up for the contest are John and Sam.
- 02 font 00 It's just a statement.
- It isn't supposed to 'show' anything.
- 02 b 02 br 02 br 01 font 00 Then what is this?
- 02 font 02 br 02 br 01 font 00 One of the best ways is to see them off is 01 u 00 with commas 02 u 00 .
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0 Hi, 02 br
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01 font 00 I was told that something like the one below is an inverted structure, << 00 It seems reasonable to call it that. 00 then what the second one that is underlined? 02 font 02 br
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01 font 00 Among the students signed up for the contest are John and Sam. -- Inverted of
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01 font 00 I was told that something like the one below is an inverted structure, << 00 It seems reasonable to call it that. 00 then what the second one that is underlined? 02 font 02 br
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01 font 00 Among the students signed up for the contest are John and Sam. -- Inverted of
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0 I suspect it was supposed to be "set them off" - as the queen of typos myself I just didn't even see that it said "see." 02 br
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00 Working on a variation of your sentence (yours would give us "to hit it with a hammer" as the subject when reversed, and an infinitive is already acceptable as a subject): 02 br
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00 One of the best ways to do that is with a
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00 Working on a variation of your sentence (yours would give us "to hit it with a hammer" as the subject when reversed, and an infinitive is already acceptable as a subject): 02 br
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00 One of the best ways to do that is with a
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