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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Problems with identifying sentence constituants

Hi, all!

Would someone please help me with this sentence:

"Once mentioned there was no way to withdraw the topic from the discussion." 

I need to identify its sentence constituants. The there-construction really gives me a hard time.

tia
Martin 
  

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there is considered a grammatical subject. Does that help? CJ

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  • Does that help?
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there is considered a grammatical subject.

Does that help?

CJ
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Hi CJ,

Thanks for your reply. So, with there being a grammatical Subject, the constituents would be:


Once mentioned > adverbial (adv. clause of time)

there > grammatical subject

was > Verb

no way to withdraw the topic from the discussion > subject Complement (being a noun phrase postmodified by a non-finite clause)

Would y
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Yes. I agree completely. And the subject complement is, of course, the "real subject" or "notional subject" in terms of meaning.

CJ
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Thank you very much!
I'm having an exam tomorrow and I just wanted to be sure about this nasty little sentence Emotion: smile
You've bee
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