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What part of speech is “(noun) the (noun)”? [closed]
What part of speech is the part boldfaced in these sentences?
Chell the protagonist of Portal is a woman.
Ludwig Wittgenstein the Austrian-British philosopher worked primarily in logic.
Tim ...
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Interpretation of 'have' as stative or dynamic
Please bear with me. It's been a long time since I looked up grammatical concepts.
The sentence is:
I can quite clearly see the bewildered looks you will be having on your faces on reading this. ...
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Usage of the article 'a' before bait in this particular instance
Is it acceptable to use the article 'a' before 'bait' in this sentence? Is there a difference in meaning here when you use 'a' or drop it?
"You would not have sent it to me for no reason. It was a ...
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“Bongo is screaming”: is “screaming” an adjective? [closed]
If I say, "Bongo is screaming", would screaming be an adjective?
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How to identify adjectives [closed]
I’m revisiting/studying about adjectives in “Adjectives” at Capital Community College Guide to Grammar and Writing. First I learn that articles are adjectives, but then there follows a paragraph in ...
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Adverb vs. direct object [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What exactly is an “adverb”?
Consider the following sentences:
She went home.
He swam yesterday.
Are the words "home" and "yesterday" adverbs or direct ...
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What part of speech is “worth”? [duplicate]
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What is the lexical class of the word 'worth' when used in a sentence like “Is this apple worth $3?”
In a sentence like the following:
The ...
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Analysing “So amazed he cannot speak” [closed]
In the sentence: "So amazed he cannot speak", is "amazed" an adjective?
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Usage of “than”
Buying on margin means borrowing money from a broker to buy more securities than can be purchased with one's own money alone.
I was wondering if than in the above example is a conjunction or ...
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Is there a term for the part of a sentence that is in the form “Customers who …” or “Products that …”?
For the purpose of building a dynamic user interface within an software application I wish to separate parts of a set of phrases which would be in the form of the examples below.
Examples:
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Do all words have a part of speech?
Do all words have a part of speech? The closest counterexample I can think of is yes. The dictionary says its supposed to be an adverb but it doesn't really strike me as something that modifies a ...
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The grammatical function of “How”
What is the grammatical function of "how" in this sentence:
He told us how to do it.
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“As of late” or “as of lately”?
The title pretty much summarizes my question. For example, in the following sentence
She has developed an accent while living overseas, which as of late(ly) became more pronounced.
I usually ...
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What part of speech is the “be + verb” here? What tense are these sentences in?
I shall have him be killed.
She is to be stoned for adultery.
What are the constructions be +verb called, grammatically? I feel like the above sentences are very adjectival in nature, more ...
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Can someone help me diagram this sentence?
I'm trying to do a sentence/phrase analysis of the following sentence. I just can't figure out, what would “No matter the season” be (Adv. of ...) in terms of sentence elements.
And the next question ...
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Can adjectives always be used as nouns when they denote a plural and are preceded by the definite article?
An adjective appears to be used as a noun when denoting an animate plural and preceded by the definite article:
'The successful are those who strive.'
'The foolish are those who ...
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How did 'mad' come to be a determiner?
There's a group of words — I think they're called determiners — used to indicate number in some way... like many, few, most, etc. During a linguistics class my professor said this was a closed group ...
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What part of speech is “on” in “on fire”?
A while ago, there was an answer on Jeopardy! along the following lines:
In the sentence he was on fire, the word on is this part of speech.
The judges ruled that it was a preposition. But I ...
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“Employee” in the phrase “employee ID” is a determiner, not an adjective—right?
I am a software developer with a bit of a linguistic slant. We were recently given some training on how to name database fields and were told to avoid adjectives in names.
Then we were given an ...
