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Eipjoo Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
subject and verb
In the example:
And shoot you in close-up the Spectator readers never see that your legs are too short for your body. The trademark Aidan Massey in-your-face presenting style, widely praised for ‘immediacy’ and ‘attack’, in fact devised to frame out the star’s dwarfish build.
In the second sentence, is the subject ‘the trademark’ and the verb ‘devised’?
And shoot you in close-up the Spectator readers never see that your legs are too short for your body. The trademark Aidan Massey in-your-face presenting style, widely praised for ‘immediacy’ and ‘attack’, in fact devised to frame out the star’s dwarfish build.
In the second sentence, is the subject ‘the trademark’ and the verb ‘devised’?
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eipjoo In the example: And shoot you in close-up the Spectator readers never see that your legs are too short for your body. The trademark Aidan Massey in-your-face presenting style, widely praised for ‘immediacy’ and ‘attack’, in fact devised to frame out the star’s dwarfish build. In the second sentence, is the subject ‘the trademark’ and the verb ‘devised’?
- eipjoo In the example: And shoot you in close-up the Spectator readers never see that your legs are too short for your body.
- The trademark Aidan Massey in-your-face presenting style, widely praised for ‘immediacy’ and ‘attack’, in fact devised to frame out the star’s dwarfish build.
- In the second sentence, is the subject ‘the trademark’ and the verb ‘devised’?
- Neither one of those is a correct sentence.
- Where did you find them?
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eipjooIn the example:
And shoot you in close-up the Spectator readers never see that your legs are too short for your body.
The trademark Aidan Massey in-your-face presenting style, widely praised for ‘immediacy’ and ‘attack’, in fact devised to frame out the star’s dwarfish build. In the second sentence, is the subject ‘the trademark’ and the verb ‘devi
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eipjooIt's from a British novel that is written by William Nicholson .Well that's surprising, because it is very bad English. Are you sure you copied the 'sentences' correctly?
The subject of the second sentence is "presenting style". There is no proper verb in that 'sentence' that I recognize..
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canadian45Are you sure you copied the 'sentences' correctly?Yes, I copied well.
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canadian45including punctuation?Yes, this is my guess:
I guess, this is a probable explanation: (1) We can presume there is ‘I’ after ‘And.’
(2) ‘your legs are too short for your body’ is ‘The trademark.’
(3) the adjective clause (subject: Aidan Massey, verb: devised) modifies ‘The trademark.’
How about this presumption?
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‘Aidan Massey in-your-face presenting style, widely praised for ‘immediacy’ and ‘attack’’ is a adjective that modifies ‘The trademark.’
And devised is the verb of it.
‘Aidan Massey in-your-face presenting style, widely praised for ‘immediacy’ and ‘attack’’ is a adjective that modifies ‘The trademark.’
And devised is the verb of it.
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eipjooI guess, this is a probable explanation: (1) We can presume there is ‘I’ after ‘And.’ But you need some punctuation after "close-up". (a semicolon)
(2) ‘your legs are too short for your body’ is ‘The trademark.’ no
(3) the adjective clause (subject: Aidan Massey, verb: devised) modifies
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