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First of all, in the use of the term that I'm used to, predicate would refer to everything after the subject. Thus, an object, complement, or subordinate clause would also be included in the predicate. It seems you are using the term 'predicate' to refer more or less to just a verb.
Now to the question. I'm not sure I understand what this means: "I need to choose certain aspects of the following extract to answer the following questions." Do you perhaps mean to say that you need to classify each sentence as an instance of one of the 'structures' you listed? If so, then if I'm reading your question correctly, we're dealing with the following six classes.
One thing that's always a good idea is to organize the data. Here are the sentences in question split apart onto separate lines and numbered.
OK, now we're ready to start tackling this. Since this sounds like a homework problem, I don't want to give the full answer. Some of these are pretty easy, e.g. sentence 3 belongs to class [A], with a single-verb predicate. Could you be more specific about which sentences are confusing you and why?
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First of all, in the use of the term that I'm used to, predicate would refer to everything after the subject. Thus, an object, complement, or subordinate clause would also be included in the predicate. It seems you are using the term 'predicate' to refer more or less to just a verb.
Now to the question. I'm not sure I understand what this means: "I need to choose certain aspects of the following extract to answer the following questions." Do you perhaps mean to say that you need to classify each sentence as an instance of one of the 'structures' you listed? If so, then if I'm reading your question correctly, we're dealing with the following six classes.
One thing that's always a good idea is to organize the data. Here are the sentences in question split apart onto separate lines and numbered.
OK, now we're ready to start tackling this. Since this sounds like a homework problem, I don't want to give the full answer. Some of these are pretty easy, e.g. sentence 3 belongs to class [A], with a single-verb predicate. Could you be more specific about which sentences are confusing you and why?
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First of all, in the use of the term that I'm used to, predicate would refer to everything after the subject. Thus, an object, complement, or subordinate clause would also be included in the predicate. It seems you are using the term 'predicate' to refer more or less to just a verb.
Now to the question. I'm not sure I understand what this means: "I need to choose certain aspects of the following extract to answer the following questions." Do you perhaps mean to say that you need to classify each sentence as an instance of one of the 'structures' you listed? If so, then if I'm reading your question correctly, we're dealing with the following six classes.
One thing that's always a good idea is to organize the data. Here are the sentences in question split apart onto separate lines and numbered.
OK, now we're ready to start tackling this. listed?
Since this sounds like a homework problem, I don't want to give the full answer. Some of these are pretty easy, e.g. sentence 3 belongs to class [A], with a single-verb predicate. Could you be more specific about which sentences are confusing you and why?
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All right - that makes sense. I'll go through each of the six categories and show how the text fits into them.
[A] Subject + Simple predicate
None of these have direct objects or complements. (In the last two, the bracketed portions are optional (i.e. can be safely omitted) and therefore could be treated as adjuncts.)
[B] Subject + Predicate with object
The bracketed portions are the direct objects:
The last one here is tricky. I'm analyzing it here as a single phrasal verb, but you should check your class notes for how you're expected to analyze such constructions.
[C] Subject + Predicate with complement
As you can tell from the Wikipedia page, the term complement can be used in multiple different ways.
In the last one, 'looked' is treated as a linking verb in traditional grammar but may be classified as a pseudo-copula in linguistics.
[D] Coordination of clauses
The only canonical instance of coordination in the text is "she opened the door and entered." However, this is at the level of the verb phrase, not the clause: {opened the door} and {entered}.
I suppose "This porridge is too hot!" she exclaimed" could be analyzed this way (with, rather than "and"/"or", instead a null/empty coordinator), but the quote is technically the complement of the verb 'exclaimed' (representing what was exclaimed), so I'd classify it as [C]. But there could be multiple possible analyses of this, so double-check your class notes about what class [D] is intended to refer to.
[E] Subordinate clause
Two different kinds:
[F] Relative clause
This one's easy:
There's clearly a few details you'll need to check on, and you still need to make the sentence diagrams, but I hope this helps set you on your way!
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