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Angv21 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Syntactic categories/behaviour
Can anyone help me out with these phrases,
I am trying to figure what these italicized phrases function as and I want to make sure I am on the right path. If I were to do phrase structure trees would it be the following?
my up-to-the minute report ???
not too sure I was thinking a Prepositional phrase but hesitant on that note.
an off-the-wall character ( adj phrase?)
an uphill struggle (adj phrase)
thanks
I am trying to figure what these italicized phrases function as and I want to make sure I am on the right path. If I were to do phrase structure trees would it be the following?
my up-to-the minute report ???
not too sure I was thinking a Prepositional phrase but hesitant on that note.
an off-the-wall character ( adj phrase?)
an uphill struggle (adj phrase)
thanks
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up-to-the - minute off-the-wall uphill These are all adjectives, and they are a part of the noun phrases you posted. The first two are hyphenated (obviously) phrasal adjectives composed of fixed prepositional phrases.
- up-to-the - minute off-the-wall uphill These are all adjectives, and they are a part of the noun phrases you posted.
- The first two are hyphenated (obviously) phrasal adjectives composed of fixed prepositional phrases.
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up-to-the-minute
off-the-wall
uphill
These are all adjectives, and they are a part of the noun phrases you posted. The first two are hyphenated (obviously) phrasal adjectives composed of fixed prepositional phrases.
off-the-wall
uphill
These are all adjectives, and they are a part of the noun phrases you posted. The first two are hyphenated (obviously) phrasal adjectives composed of fixed prepositional phrases.
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