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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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What is your name?

"What is your name?" In this sentence, "what" is a subject or a complement? Or is it okay to consider "what" as either of them in the sentence structure, What + be( is, are, etc) + nouns?

"What question is yours?" I know that "what" functions as an adjective, but I would like to know "what question" is a subject or a complement here? Thank you as usual and I would appreciate it, if you could help me.
  

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" In this sentence, "what" is a subject or a complement? What is an object complement. " I know that "what" functions as an adjective, but I would like to know "what question" is a subject or a complement here?

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  • " In this sentence, "what" is a subject or a complement?
  • What is an object complement.
  • " I know that "what" functions as an adjective, but I would like to know "what question" is a subject or a complement here?
  • What is a determiner.
  • (interrogative adjective) Reference: The Structure of Modern English, by Laurel J.
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Anonymous"What is your name?" In this sentence, "what" is a subject or a complement?
What is an object complement. (Interrogative pronoun)
Anonymous"What question is yours?" I know that "what" functions as an adjective, but I would like to know "what question" is a subject or a complement here?
What is a determ
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Objective complement? I think it should be a subject complement. What do you think?
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Sorry, you are right. I picked the wrong example from the text. Emotion: embarrassed
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It's okay. You have been always helpful and we are not perfect.Emotion: smile
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Anonymous"What question is yours?" I know that "what" functions as an adjective, but I would like to know "what question" is a subject or a complement here?
It is predicative complement. "Yours" is the subject - it appears in the usual post-auxiliary position ("be" is an auxiliary verb).

I'd call "What" an in
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