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Eddie88 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Question on a phrase
Starving due to low food supplies, the crew were anxious, homesick and worried that they would never make it home.
Hi, I have a question based on this sentence: I will analyse it first:
Starving due to low food supplies= participle phrase
starving=present participle
due to=idiom, so I don't know what this is
low=adjective/pre modifier
food=noun
supplies=head noun
the crew were anxious, homesick and worried= Main clause
the=determiner/pre modifier/definite article
crew=hea noun/subject
were=anxious/verb 'to be'
anxious, homesick and worried= verb complement
that they would never= Noun clause
that=complementizer
they=pronoun/head noun/subject
would=main verb/what type???
never=adverb
make=non-finite verb?
it=part of the verb make?
home=noun/object of verb
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Please correct any of my analysis, thanks.
From this, I have a question. Would you put a comma after the word 'starving'? I would say no as 'due to low food supplies' is part of the participle phrase. Is this correct? How do you know when a phrase ends? Is it when words are no longer modifying the head noun? But what about phrases that don't have nouns?
Thanks in advance.
Hi, I have a question based on this sentence: I will analyse it first:
Starving due to low food supplies= participle phrase
starving=present participle
due to=idiom, so I don't know what this is
low=adjective/pre modifier
food=noun
supplies=head noun
the crew were anxious, homesick and worried= Main clause
the=determiner/pre modifier/definite article
crew=hea noun/subject
were=anxious/verb 'to be'
anxious, homesick and worried= verb complement
that they would never= Noun clause
that=complementizer
they=pronoun/head noun/subject
would=main verb/what type???
never=adverb
make=non-finite verb?
it=part of the verb make?
home=noun/object of verb
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Please correct any of my analysis, thanks.
From this, I have a question. Would you put a comma after the word 'starving'? I would say no as 'due to low food supplies' is part of the participle phrase. Is this correct? How do you know when a phrase ends? Is it when words are no longer modifying the head noun? But what about phrases that don't have nouns?
Thanks in advance.
Top answer
1) due to is a proposition. It has the same meaning as "because of" 2) The verb in the clause is "would make" - modal present tense form of "make". It is a finite verb.
- 1) due to is a proposition.
- It has the same meaning as "because of" 2) The verb in the clause is "would make" - modal present tense form of "make".
- It is a finite verb.
- 3) it - is the object of the verb make.
- It is idiomatic meaning "all the way to a goal or destination" 4) Home is an adverb.
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1) due to is a proposition. It has the same meaning as "because of"
2) The verb in the clause is "would make" - modal present tense form of "make". It is a finite verb.
3) it - is the object of the verb make. It is idiomatic meaning "all the way to a goal or destination"
4) Home is an adverb.
5) A starting participle phrase is set off with a comma.There
2) The verb in the clause is "would make" - modal present tense form of "make". It is a finite verb.
3) it - is the object of the verb make. It is idiomatic meaning "all the way to a goal or destination"
4) Home is an adverb.
5) A starting participle phrase is set off with a comma.There
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