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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
Sentence Analysis
I have to analyse the following sentence, but I'm really stuck...
"Amanda's practical solutions of what had seemed an insoluble mystery descended on the family like a balm."
I have to cut this sentence into constituents and cut those up in nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, pronouns, prepositions etc.
For now I have this:
'Amanda's practical solutions of what had seemed an insoluble mystery' = the subject of the whole sentence and is a Noun Phrase
'descended' = the main verb of the sentence,
'on the family' = a Prepositional Phrase
'like a balm' = a Prepositional Phrase
The two prepositional phrases don't give me any trouble (both start with a preposition, than have a determiner article and end in a noun).
The Noun Phrase is what gives me trouble...
'Amanda's practical solutions of what had seemed an insoluble mystery' has two constituents, I'd say...
'Amanda's practical solutions' = Noun Phrase
'of what had seemed an insoluble mystery' = ???
I really can't get beyond this point... How should I analyse this?
I really hope someone can help me with this sentence...
"Amanda's practical solutions of what had seemed an insoluble mystery descended on the family like a balm."
I have to cut this sentence into constituents and cut those up in nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, pronouns, prepositions etc.
For now I have this:
'Amanda's practical solutions of what had seemed an insoluble mystery' = the subject of the whole sentence and is a Noun Phrase
'descended' = the main verb of the sentence,
'on the family' = a Prepositional Phrase
'like a balm' = a Prepositional Phrase
The two prepositional phrases don't give me any trouble (both start with a preposition, than have a determiner article and end in a noun).
The Noun Phrase is what gives me trouble...
'Amanda's practical solutions of what had seemed an insoluble mystery' has two constituents, I'd say...
'Amanda's practical solutions' = Noun Phrase
'of what had seemed an insoluble mystery' = ???
I really can't get beyond this point... How should I analyse this?
I really hope someone can help me with this sentence...
Top answer
i think we can explian "what had seemed an insoluble mystery " as a none sentence 'Amanda's p solutions' is the subject 'of what had seemed an insoluble mystery ' is a phrase to define or describe it . so 'of what had seemed an insoluble mystery ' =Adjetive Phrase
- i think we can explian "what had seemed an insoluble mystery " as a none sentence 'Amanda's p solutions' is the subject 'of what had seemed an insoluble mystery ' is a phrase to define or describe it .
- so 'of what had seemed an insoluble mystery ' =Adjetive Phrase
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i think we can explian "what had seemed an insoluble mystery " as a none sentence
'Amanda's p solutions' is the subject
'of what had seemed an insoluble mystery ' is a phrase to define or describe it .
so 'of what had seemed an insoluble mystery ' =Adjetive Phrase
'Amanda's p solutions' is the subject
'of what had seemed an insoluble mystery ' is a phrase to define or describe it .
so 'of what had seemed an insoluble mystery ' =Adjetive Phrase
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