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Seagull Posted 11 years ago
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some basic common sense gun safety laws
One of those actions we could take would be to enhance some basic common sense gun safety laws," Obama said.
The above is from the CNN website. In the sentence, I don't know the part "some basic common sense gun safety laws" very well. Is the following grammatically correct?:
1 The object of the transitive verb "enhance" is the entire following phrase "some basic common sense gun safety laws."
2 "some" is the determiner of "(gun safety) laws."
3 "basic" modifies "(gun safety) laws."
4 "common sense" modifies "(gun safety) laws."
5 "gun safety laws" is basically one word. "gun safety" modifies "laws."
The above is from the CNN website. In the sentence, I don't know the part "some basic common sense gun safety laws" very well. Is the following grammatically correct?:
1 The object of the transitive verb "enhance" is the entire following phrase "some basic common sense gun safety laws."
2 "some" is the determiner of "(gun safety) laws."
3 "basic" modifies "(gun safety) laws."
4 "common sense" modifies "(gun safety) laws."
5 "gun safety laws" is basically one word. "gun safety" modifies "laws."
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seagull I don't know the part "some basic common sense gun safety laws" very well. : Yes. It shows that the number of modifiers is virtually unlimited.
- seagull I don't know the part "some basic common sense gun safety laws" very well.
- : Yes.
- It shows that the number of modifiers is virtually unlimited.
- I would have hyphenated "common-sense".
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seagullI don't know the part "some basic common sense gun safety laws" very well. Is the following grammatically correct?:Yes.
It shows that the number of modifiers is virtually unlimited.
I would have hyphenated "common-sense".
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