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Eddie88 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Two questions about sentences
'Where does John live'?
I was reading from an internet site discussing noun clauses. The site named this sentence above as a noun clause. This is incorrect is it not? A noun clause is a type of subodinate clause and cannot stand alone as a sentence. This sentence can.
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'To love is to die, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed'
This is two separate sentences, correct?
Is to love and to be loved prepositional phrases? At first glance I thought they were infinitives.
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Thanks.
I was reading from an internet site discussing noun clauses. The site named this sentence above as a noun clause. This is incorrect is it not? A noun clause is a type of subodinate clause and cannot stand alone as a sentence. This sentence can.
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'To love is to die, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed'
This is two separate sentences, correct?
Is to love and to be loved prepositional phrases? At first glance I thought they were infinitives.
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Thanks.
Top answer
" -I suppose it could be a noun clause if it were embedded as quoted speech. To love is to die, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed. = There are many infinitives used as nouns (subject & predicate).
- " -I suppose it could be a noun clause if it were embedded as quoted speech.
- To love is to die, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed.
- = There are many infinitives used as nouns (subject & predicate).
- To love (subject) is (main verb) to die (predicate noun) and (conjunction) to be loved (passive voice, subject) is (main verb) to be the one destroyed (predicate noun), "the one destroyed" is the predicate of the infinitive "be"
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By the way, he also asked me "where does John live?" -I suppose it could be a noun clause if it were embedded as quoted speech.
To love is to die, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed. = There are many infinitives used as nouns (subject & predicate).
To love (subject)
is (main verb)
to die (predicate noun)
and (conjunction)
to be loved (passive voice, subject)
To love is to die, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed. = There are many infinitives used as nouns (subject & predicate).
To love (subject)
is (main verb)
to die (predicate noun)
and (conjunction)
to be loved (passive voice, subject)
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Thanks, I knew that infinitives can be the subject of a sentence; I was unsure if they were infinitives.
'to be be loved' you say that this is in the passive voice? How is this so? To be loved is the subject, is is the verb and then there is the object; all of which are in the active voice order, are they not?
'to be be loved' you say that this is in the passive voice? How is this so? To be loved is the subject, is is the verb and then there is the object; all of which are in the active voice order, are they not?
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Infinitives are verbals, so they have some of the properties of verbs. (They can have subjects, objects, and adverb modification)
"to love" is an infinitive - the marker "to" + the verb. "to be loved by someone" is, on its own, passive voice. It has nothing to do with the voice or verbs in the rest of the sentence.
I suppose that the phrase could also be interpreted as the infiniti
"to love" is an infinitive - the marker "to" + the verb. "to be loved by someone" is, on its own, passive voice. It has nothing to do with the voice or verbs in the rest of the sentence.
I suppose that the phrase could also be interpreted as the infiniti
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