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AkaMaria Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

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0 I have been discussing this sentence with some of my friends, and we don't seem to agree. 02br
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00'Each of the books in the projected seven-volume series follows Harry through an academic year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry' 02br
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00What are the basic clause elements? 02br
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00And one more question: 02br
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00The word 'that', how many functions does it have? And what are they? 02br
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00Trying out this place for the first time, I am hoping someone will help me! 0-
  

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0 Re: 'Each of the books in the projected seven-volume series follows Harry through an academic year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry' 02br 02br 00There is only one verb ("follows") in your sentence indicating that there are NO subordinate clauses. It is a simple sentence having a subject and a predicate, 02br 02br 00i) Each of the books in the projected seven-volume series ----subject 02br 00ii) follows Harry through an academic year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry---predicate. 02br 02br 00Re: The word 'that', how many functions does it have?

— Temico

  • 0 Re: 'Each of the books in the projected seven-volume series follows Harry through an academic year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry' 02br 02br 00There is only one verb ("follows") in your sentence indicating that there are NO subordinate clauses.
  • It is a simple sentence having a subject and a predicate, 02br 02br 00i) Each of the books in the projected seven-volume series ----subject 02br 00ii) follows Harry through an academic year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry---predicate.
  • 02br 02br 00Re: The word 'that', how many functions does it have?
  • And what are they?
  • 02br 02br 00The word "that" can be a "pronoun", "adverb", "conjuction", etc.
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0 Re: 'Each of the books in the projected seven-volume series follows Harry through an academic year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry' 02br
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00There is only one verb ("follows") in your sentence indicating that there are NO subordinate clauses. It is a simple sentence having a subject and a predicate, 02br
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00i) Each of the books in
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0 Hello Maria 02br
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00Welcome to this EnglishForum. I myself am a mere English learner from Japan. I'm glad if we can learn English together here. 02br
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00I think you'd better parse your sentence this way; 02br
00 Main frame: 02br
00 Each follows Harry. 02br
00 Modify some of its elements
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0 Thank you, temico! 02br
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00But I really need to locate the verb etc. as well. My suggestion is as follows: 02br
00Each of the books in the projected seven-volume series (subject) 02br
00follows (verb) 02br
00Harry (direct object) 02br
00through an academic year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (prepositional
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0 Thank you for your very clear explanation of the grammatical function word 'that'. Very helpful... 02br
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00P.S. I must say I like the little proverb at the end of your message. Es verdad! 0-
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