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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Sentence Analalysis
Please someone analyse the sentence given below:
"It is evident from the book lying on the desk of brown colour"
Whether it is a simple sentence or compund sentence?
What is the subject? What is the predicate?
What is the object of the verb i.e. whether it is a noun or adjective?
Are there any adverb phrases in the sentence? If yes please identify.
Are there any adjective phrases in the sentence? If yes please identify.
Are there any noun phrases in the sentence? If yes please identify.
Is there any better way of writing this sentence? If yes please modify.
And above all, is the above sentence grammatically correct in its present form? If no, what is wrong?
"It is evident from the book lying on the desk of brown colour"
Whether it is a simple sentence or compund sentence?
What is the subject? What is the predicate?
What is the object of the verb i.e. whether it is a noun or adjective?
Are there any adverb phrases in the sentence? If yes please identify.
Are there any adjective phrases in the sentence? If yes please identify.
Are there any noun phrases in the sentence? If yes please identify.
Is there any better way of writing this sentence? If yes please modify.
And above all, is the above sentence grammatically correct in its present form? If no, what is wrong?
Top answer
I'm not going to tackle all the parts of speech, but I can tell you what's wrong with the sentence. "the book lying on the desk of brown colour" is needlessly ambiguous -- is the book "of brown colour," or the desk? "
- I'm not going to tackle all the parts of speech, but I can tell you what's wrong with the sentence.
- "the book lying on the desk of brown colour" is needlessly ambiguous -- is the book "of brown colour," or the desk?
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I'm not going to tackle all the parts of speech, but I can tell you what's wrong with the sentence. "the book lying on the desk of brown colour" is needlessly ambiguous -- is the book "of brown colour," or the desk? It sounds as though someone deliberately tried to create ambiguity, because it would be much more natural to say either "the brown book lying on the table," or "the book lying on t
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