All posts tagged "prepositional complement"
Lies Your Grammar Teacher Told You: Possessive Pronouns and Possessive DeterminersAs I have written repeatedly, the line between grammatical forms is blurry at best, especially among lexical categories like noun, verb,...
English DeterminersNovember 27, 2019- Not All Forms That Function as Adverbials Are Adverbs
The other day I read a tweet that made some claims about adverbs: “The -s in “unawares,” as in “they were...
English AdverbsMay 1, 2019 - Are ‘Yesterday,’ ‘Today’, and ‘Tomorrow’ Nouns or Adverbs?
Are the words yesterday, today, and tomorrow adverbs or nouns? Oxford Living Dictionaries identifies all three words as an adverb first...
English AdverbsApril 14, 2019 - Lies Your Grammar Teacher Told You: Nouns and Adjectives
Notional grammars define adjectives as “words that describe nouns.” Big, cute, green, small, and wonky are prototypical adjectives. In big bully,...
English AdjectivesMarch 31, 2019 - A Short History of ‘You’
“What’s wrong with you?” posits the Oxford Dictionaries. But, seriously, what’s up with the oddness that is the second person personal...
English PronounsMarch 12, 2019 - Reflexive Pronouns in English Grammar
Pronouns are small words that can take the place of nouns, noun phrases, and other grammatical forms. Reflexive pronouns are pronouns...
English PronounsJanuary 12, 2016 - Possessive Pronouns in English Grammar
Pronouns are small words that can take the place of other grammatical forms such as nouns and noun phrases. Possessive pronouns...
English PronounsMarch 16, 2015 - Object Pronouns in English Grammar
Pronouns are small words that can take the place of nouns, noun phrases, and other grammatical forms. Object pronouns are pronouns...
English PronounsFebruary 20, 2015 - The Adpositional Complement in English Grammar
Adpositional complements are defined as the word, phrase, or clause that directly follows the adposition and completes the meaning of the...
Grammatical FunctionFebruary 10, 2014 - Using Prepositional Phrases as Prepositional Complements
Traditional notional grammars define prepositions as words that “link to other words, phrases, and clauses” and that “express spatial or temporal...
English PrepositionsJanuary 29, 2014 - Using Verbs and Verb Phrases as Prepositional Complements
Verbs are traditionally defined by notional grammars as “words that denote an action or a state of being.” A verb phrase...
English VerbsDecember 4, 2013 - English Noun Clauses
Noun clauses are independent, or subordinate, clauses that perform nominal functions. Clauses are grammatical structures that contain a subject and a...
English NounsSeptember 2, 2013 - English Pronouns
Notional grammars define pronouns as “small words that take the place of nouns and other grammatical forms.” Pronoun is a subcategory...
English PronounsAugust 29, 2013 - Nominal Functions of English Verbs and Verb Phrases
Traditional grammars define verbs as “action or state of being words.” Verb phrases are phrases that consist of a verb plus...
English VerbsAugust 22, 2013 - Using Noun Clauses as Prepositional Complements
A clause is a grammatical structure that consists of a subject and a predicate. A dependent or subordinate clause is a...
English NounsAugust 17, 2013
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