Questions tagged [sentence]
A sentence is a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate.
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What does the sentence mean here? I understand each sentence but can't find the logic behind this one in connection with all the others in the passage
A few days ago, I posted a question about a passage from the book The Lady's Maid by Rosina Harrison. Since I'm translating it, there will be more questions to follow, so please bear with me!
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Is “because because” valid in a sentence?
A random sentence I just said sounded odd:
It is cause and effect because because of her doing X, he did Y
Sure, I could say this instead:
It is cause and effect because when she did X, he did Y
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Optative sentences
May you be healthy.
Wish you success in your life.
What are the structures of these two optative sentences?
Should the structures be like:
modal verb + subject + main verb + adjective.
Main verb (...
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Is there a difference between the genitive case and compound adjective in these two?
I'm confused about the distinction between these two sentences: "it's forty minutes' walk from my house to the mall" and "it's a forty-minute walk from my house to the mall"
As a ...
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Syntactic analysis of "The pros are that working in a foreign language can make people make better decisions."
I need some help with defining the type of the sentence (simple, complex, or compound-complex) and its clauses. Here's the sentence:
The pros are that working in a foreign language can make people ...
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understanding of a structure [duplicate]
I wonder if there is any confusion regarding how to understand sentences like the following:
I want to comment on you as a teacher.
I mean should it be understood as "I" am the teacher ...
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Meaning of "tall" in "I never saw him look so tall."
M. Hamel stood up, very pale, in his chair. I never saw him look so tall.
What does 'look so tall' mean here?
My book states the following MCQ as well :
M.Hamel :
(a) had grown physically taller
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What rule makes it possible to drop "does" in sentences such as "It is imperative she doesn't eat"
As the title says, I am struggling to understand when it is allowed to drop the "does" in sentences such as "it is imperative she doesn't eat for three hours". Why is it possible ...
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Can we interpret the word "from" in this question in following two ways
I had one of these questions in an exam which was intended to be a mathematical question somehow made it a grammatical nightmare for me.
The way I interpreted the sentence "Over a period of 16 ...
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Why we use the helping verb "do" to form questions and negative statements when the main verb is of type action? [duplicate]
What is the reason in using the verb "do"? On negative sentences, why we don't leave just the negation "not" with the main verb, as: "I not write", instead of "I do ...
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In this example of colon usage, what would you call the sentence left of the colon?
Example below this line:
The RTO demonstrates:
(a) how it identifies the facilities, resources and equipment required to deliver the
training product, including which of these will be provided by the ...
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Syntactic function of subordinate clause
I will go if you come.
According to cgel, 'if' is a marker. But what is the syntactic function of 'you come'? Is that syntactic function coordinate, subordinate, head or something else?
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I recently learned the movie is titled "Dead Poets Society" and I have no idea why it's not "poet society". What's the difference? [duplicate]
That's part of the language that I always find challenging. What is the actual difference between "poets society" and "poet society"? To me, both mean the same.
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Why is "were spilled" wrong in this sentence?
I asked a question on this site and in one of the comments someone pointed out something grammatically wrong with this sentence that I had used in the Body:
Traffic became increasingly congested as ...
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Can a sentence with a relative that-clause be interrupted with a new independent clause and a comma?
I was very interested in the following sentence from the compilation The Colored Lands by a youthful G.K. Chesterton, in, more specifically, "The Taming of the Nightmare." For context, a boy ...
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