Correct usage of phrases.
It is true that just a sense is the subject of the following sentence. Why is the subject a sense? Why is it needed?
What does it mean to break any norms?
I can feel
a sense of fear washing over me.
What is a good question to answer?
A sense of fear
washed over him. Do you know what happened?
What is the difference between a sense of fear and noun phrase? What washed over him? How can one control feelings of fear? Why washed over him?
The wave smashed into ‘James’, immediately after the other wave crashed into him.
When a bird landed on the ground what would it do?
The idea behind your first sentence is obvious—your adjective is also used as it is. But then the sentence is also written in some way without a sentence having a noun use. I tried to understand our first sentence, but it didn’t.
‘A sense, in my mind, we’re witnessing someone pushing boundaries’.
Is it true we were eating something out of the oven.
I think nobody should work tomorrow. we were thinking nobody should work today.
I’m interested in rephrasing a sentence I just read. I know that sentence isn’t easy. But there are other ways. Both are grammatical, although only the first actually makes sense.
We were witnessing pushing boundaries.
What we were witnessing was push boundaries. (a sense)
In a sense, on the other hand, is actually an idiom that means something beyond the joining of the three individual words:
in
a/one sense idiom :
from one point of view // This is actually true,
and it’s possible.”
So, if you add in to the start of a sense, you are changing it from a noun phrase to a dependent clause that is acting either as adjectival phrase or adverbial phrase depending on its context. , we saw someone pushing boundaries and defying convention.
In short, the
sentence you are questioning can be (correctly) seen as follows: we were witnessing someone pushing boundaries and defying conventions.
I’ve seen people pushing boundaries and defying convention. What do they do in my mind?
we were witnessing someone breaking boundaries and defying conventions.
What is the reason for the popularity of the Bible?
