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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
Questions on sentences
Please help with these.
1. What comes after the dash should be a phrase, not a clause or a sentence? Right?
Joe was delivered a bag of food containing a hamburger, a pastrami sandwich, two small fries and an order of onion rings -- the last two being told to be that of Sandy.
2. Is the underlined part acting as an adjective? I think this partial sentence from a post in this forum.
... having some high beginners in the same class as some more intermediate level.
3. Would you hypenate the same?
... ranging from passive word-recognition to active sentence writing.
1. What comes after the dash should be a phrase, not a clause or a sentence? Right?
Joe was delivered a bag of food containing a hamburger, a pastrami sandwich, two small fries and an order of onion rings -- the last two being told to be that of Sandy.
2. Is the underlined part acting as an adjective? I think this partial sentence from a post in this forum.
... having some high beginners in the same class as some more intermediate level.
3. Would you hypenate the same?
... ranging from passive word-recognition to active sentence writing.
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1. What comes after the dash should be a phrase, not a clause or a sentence? Right?
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- What comes after the dash should be a phrase, not a clause or a sentence?
- Right?
- -- Anything could follow an m-dash-- a word, a phrase, or a clause.
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1. What comes after the dash should be a phrase, not a clause or a sentence? Right? -- Anything could follow an m-dash-- a word, a phrase, or a clause.
2. ... having some high beginners in the same class as well as some more intermediate level. Is the underlined part acting as an adjective? -- It seems to be an adjective acting as a pronoun: 'some beginners
2. ... having some high beginners in the same class as well as some more intermediate level. Is the underlined part acting as an adjective? -- It seems to be an adjective acting as a pronoun: 'some beginners
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