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Sentence analysis
can someone analyze this sentence? and please list out the words and sentence parts
She is so pretty a girl.
He is too bright a student to study with me.
How smart a student he is.
and also, mr. micawber said if there are 2 adjectives there has to be a comma in between, yet look at this sentence which is deemed correct by paco.
I don't like that short-tempered lecherous silly old guy. (no commas at all?)
thanks
She is so pretty a girl.
He is too bright a student to study with me.
How smart a student he is.
and also, mr. micawber said if there are 2 adjectives there has to be a comma in between, yet look at this sentence which is deemed correct by paco.
I don't like that short-tempered lecherous silly old guy. (no commas at all?)
thanks
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No I didn't, I just put comma(s) in your example. Some do and some do not: it depends on length, complexity and reference. I left Paco's sentence alone at that time, but would punctuate it this way: 'I don't like that short-tempered, lecherous, silly old guy.
- No I didn't, I just put comma(s) in your example.
- Some do and some do not: it depends on length, complexity and reference.
- I left Paco's sentence alone at that time, but would punctuate it this way: 'I don't like that short-tempered, lecherous, silly old guy.
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No I didn't, I just put comma(s) in your example. Some do and some do not: it depends on length, complexity and reference. I left Paco's sentence alone at that time, but would punctuate it this way:
'I don't like that short-tempered, lecherous, silly old guy. '
'I don't like that short-tempered, lecherous, silly old guy. '
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Wow! That IS neat, JT!
+++.02 seconds (27.63 total)
Found 2 linkages (2 with no P.P. violations)
Linkage 1, cost vector = (UNUSED=0 DIS=1 AND=0 LEN=28)
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+++.02 seconds (27.63 total)
Found 2 linkages (2 with no P.P. violations)
Linkage 1, cost vector = (UNUSED=0 DIS=1 AND=0 LEN=28)
+----------------------------Xp---------------------------+
+------------------Wd-----------------+ |
| +--------------CO--------------+
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I think I missed something! When did infinitives become prepositional phrases?
"to study" = preposition, noun
Has somebody changed all the terminology since yesterday?
I know linguists are constantly changing their theories, but this is ridiculous!
"to study" = preposition, noun
Has somebody changed all the terminology since yesterday?
I know linguists are constantly changing their theories, but this is ridiculous!
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Hello everyone,
I like to do sentence analyses, so if you could sometimes send us some exercises on the matter they will be very welcome.
A/ Here is MY analysis:
1) She is so pretty a girl.
a) parts of speech:
she = nominative personal pronoun
is = fintie verb
so = adverb of intensity
pretty = predicative adjective
a = indefi
I like to do sentence analyses, so if you could sometimes send us some exercises on the matter they will be very welcome.
A/ Here is MY analysis:
1) She is so pretty a girl.
a) parts of speech:
she = nominative personal pronoun
is = fintie verb
so = adverb of intensity
pretty = predicative adjective
a = indefi
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Dear teachers,
Could someone help me with this explanation? I didn't understand it.
THE POLICEMAN: subject
WAS NOT IMPRESSED: passive verb phrase
BY YOUR ALIBI: agentive adverbial
Thank you in advance.
Hela
Could someone help me with this explanation? I didn't understand it.
THE POLICEMAN: subject
WAS NOT IMPRESSED: passive verb phrase
BY YOUR ALIBI: agentive adverbial
"an agentive adverbial" is a by-phrase denoting the agent of a passive verb - another 'minor' subclass of adverbial.
Thank you in advance.
Hela
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I would not call this an agentive adverbial. "agent" means essentially "person" or "animate being". The agent of the sentence (if there is one) is the being which acts.
The man threw the ball.
The ball was thrown by the man. ("by the man" - agentive adverbial)
But "by your alibi" does not seem to qualify, in my opinion, because an alibi cannot perform any action.
The man threw the ball.
The ball was thrown by the man. ("by the man" - agentive adverbial)
But "by your alibi" does not seem to qualify, in my opinion, because an alibi cannot perform any action.
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There are a few nonpersonal agents (in the wider sense), Jim:
'Snow has covered the roof/ the roof has been covered by snow'. I can visualize the alibi impressing the policeman here-- especially if it is an airtight one.
Delving into Quirk produced for me four 'subclasses' of the process adverbial: manner ('casually', 'with deference'), means ('by bus', 'through insight'), in
'Snow has covered the roof/ the roof has been covered by snow'. I can visualize the alibi impressing the policeman here-- especially if it is an airtight one.
Delving into Quirk produced for me four 'subclasses' of the process adverbial: manner ('casually', 'with deference'), means ('by bus', 'through insight'), in
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Can someone analyze this sentence?
She is so pretty a girl.
He is too bright a student to study with me.
How smart a student he is.
Well, what's your analysis?
Try looking at it this way:
pretty (of) a girl
bright (of) a student
smart (of) a student
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