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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Sentence Analysis

|Geography and bio-geography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native-Americans, sub Saharan Africans and aboriginal Australians\"

Is the following sentence analysis correct?

Subject…Geography and bio-geography,
Verb……Moulded
Object….the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native-Americans, sub Saharan Africans and aboriginal Australians.

Adjectival phrase….not race
Adjectives………...contrasting ( a participle used adjectively)
Native
sub-Saharan
aboriginal
  

Top answer

"Not race" isn't adjectival. " (An appositive is a noun phrase that renames another noun: Barack Obama, the President of the United States of America. ") The "not" can only modify "moulding" since the sense is that "race did not mould the ...

— Deadrat

  • "Not race" isn't adjectival.
  • " (An appositive is a noun phrase that renames another noun: Barack Obama, the President of the United States of America.
  • ") The "not" can only modify "moulding" since the sense is that "race did not mould the ...
  • " But like many parentheticals, it has a loose syntactic connection to the rest of the sentence.
  • "
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"Not race" isn't adjectival. It's an idiomatic parenthetical, working as a kind of anti-appositive to "Geography and bio-geography." (An appositive is a noun phrase that renames another noun: Barack Obama, the President of the United States of America.") The "not" can only modify "moulding" since the sense is that "race did not mould the ... fates." But like many parentheticals,
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Very helpful and interesting.
But i am still unclear why the ' Europeans, Asians, Native-Americans, African and Australians' is the compound object of the preposition 'of'
I thought it was the indirect object of the whole sentence.
Thanks
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AnonymousI thought it was the indirect object of the whole sentence.
Only ditransitive verbs (give, send, etc.) take indirect objects. Mould is not in that list.
"Of" is a preposition, and takes an object.

.the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native-Americans, sub Saharan Africans and aboriginal Australians.

The proposition
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You certainly know your grammar!
Thanks again..
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