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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"I give Salle a pocket watch" or "I gave Salle a pocket watch" [closed]
I want to express the sentence in the present simple form, but there's a mistake in "I give..." and "I gave..." I know that the action describes the situation in the past but I ...
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I would like to submit an opinion letter arguing that my sentence should also be considered correct [migrated]
I am a high school student from a country where English is not the native language. In my recent English exam, the following two sentences were involved:
The official correct sentence:
"Hence, ...
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Is sentence itself a syntactic function or not?
There are syntactic functions of subordinate clauses. But what about main clauses?
For example:
Assertive clause: He is a good student.
Is its syntactic function sentence itself or something else?
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Is it more grammatically correct to ask "When do your exams end?" or "When do your exams finish?" [duplicate]
If neither of these sentences are correct, what would be the correct way to ask this question?
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Would you put a possessive pronoun before "destitution" in this sentence?
Would you say this:
This story tells of a young man who asks for his inheritance early, then squanders it in a foreign land, leading to destitution.
or this:
This story tells of a young man who ...
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Sentence structure 'The furniture arrives fully assembled.' [duplicate]
I have a questions about sentence structure.
The furniture arrives fully assembled.
I understand what it means, but what's the function of 'fully assembled'?
It doesn't seem to modify the verb, but ...
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Subject placement in not only ... but also construction
This is an example taken from cambridge dictionary article not only ... but also:
Not only did she forget my birthday, but she also didn’t even
apologise for forgetting it.
In their example, the ...
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Better to put interrupting phrase before or after that-conjunction?
Which sentence is either correct or better than the other? Are they both valid?
Then she eagerly dug into every basket and confirmed that, to her pleasant surprise, they were all loaded with good ...
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What part of speech is the word "having" in this context?
What part of speech is the word "having" in the following?
Having signed the contract, we went for a party.
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"Some folks are born made to wave the flag." Is this sentence in the passive voice? [closed]
I have to do a text study, a text interpretation, and I chose the song "Fortunate Son" by the American rock band Creedence.
At starting it, the sentence: "Some folks are born made to ...
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If the first half of the sentence is a hypothetical scenario and other half is the postulated outcome, should one use "had been" or "was"?
Apologies for possibly a dumb question.
Let's be honest, IF it was the other way around the build would have been
blocked and if by any chance it was released, it would have caused
some serious ...
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A linking verb or a part of the verb phrase?
I just came across the following sentences, and it just kept me thinking for hours and searching up grammar rules, but it was in vain. The question is about identifying verbal phrases:
The apples ...
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benefitting patients with X/ benefits patients with X [duplicate]
I am struggling with analysing the sentence 'Y happens, benefitting patients with X'.
I can see that 'Y benefits patients with X' uses the present tense simple form of the verb.
But in the first ...
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meaning of sentence with "include __ other than __" structure
In the below sentence,
The mission of the entity may include goals other than maximizing profit.
is it implied that "maximizing profit" is a goal of the entity OR is it referring to only ...
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Sentence improvement too redundant [closed]
Can this be improved?
The last tale of success on a constructed new programming language is
one at the famous X, LLC.
or,
The last tale of success of a constructed new programming language is
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