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  • Where is the complement “not good”? Is it the complement about not good or good?

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  • Where is the complement “not good”? Is it the complement about not good or good?

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  • Asked on March 18, 2021 in Other.

    available (adj) & availability (noun)

    red or blue (adj) &

    redness (noun) culpable or culpability

    (noun) The usual term is ‘de-adjectival noun’ for nouns formed this way.

    Information about the process of nationalisation.

    The process is called “nominalisation”.

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  • Asked on March 18, 2021 in Other.

    available (adj) & availability (noun)

    red or blue (adj) &

    redness (noun) culpable or culpability

    (noun) The usual term is ‘de-adjectival noun’ for nouns formed this way.

    Information about the process of nationalisation.

    The process is called “nominalisation”.

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  • Asked on March 18, 2021 in Other.

    available (adj) & availability (noun)

    red or blue (adj) &

    redness (noun) culpable or culpability

    (noun) The usual term is ‘de-adjectival noun’ for nouns formed this way.

    Information about the process of nationalisation.

    The process is called “nominalisation”.

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  • Asked on March 16, 2021 in Grammar.

    I had too many things to do that I couldn’t finish them all I had

    so many things to do that I couldn’t finish them all There is a

    grammatical explanation for “so” being correct and not “too”. Is the clause in bold a delayed complement? It’s called ‘delayed’ because it does not immediately follow the element that licenses it but is ‘delayed’ to the end of the sentence (matrix clauses). In your example , delay complement is licensed by the adverb “so” that modifies “many things”. How did A too licence this clause complement in a construction like this, which is why is ungrammmatical?

    When we drop a complement in a sentence, the sentence becomes ungrammmatical (* I had so many things to do, I couldn’t finish them all).

    How is it that they don’t understand/understand geography?

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  • Asked on March 6, 2021 in Grammar.

    The first large preposition phrase containing several sub clauses, functioning as an omissible adjunct, and the subsequent main clause with its own numerous SCs: PP Adjunct With , , and

    The PP is headed by/organized by the prep with which (have as its complement 3 coordinated sub clauses in, 2) more than 430,000 migrants having

    entered Europe by sea this year. This year.

    Where would the countries of Europe resurrecting borders , containing the relative clause they’d once removed which modifies the NP borders?

    3) thousands of people in Calais trying containing the clause to reach Britain illegally, which is catenative complement to trying.

    Main Clause

    ]].

    The MC contains 4 sub clauses:

    1) the large that -content clause as complement to have argued and containing: 2)

    the relative in which clause modifying the NP great age of migration, which in turn contains: 3) the

    infinitival to resist clause as complement to powerless, which contains: 4) the participial

    travelling clause modifying the NP huge numbers of people.

    As a catenative verb with reached Europe, then a sub clause as catenative complement. I’ve treated having considered as a constituent i.e. having met by appointment. I’ve tried that, I tried to keep it simple. For all cases. (or a

    clause) ‘the verb’.

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  • Asked on March 5, 2021 in Grammar.

    What is it that I felt doing and talking?

    What does what do? What is the difference between ‘fused’ relative construction and “fused” relative construction? What is the bracketed expression for, in the relation clause, a noun phrase whose head is fused with the relative part of the other verb (cf. example, pgs. 8)? If you omit like ‘what’, then you would get rid of the head word of the noun phrase making no sense of course.

    In your example, “what” is head of the noun phrase while at the same time object of the verb “do”. If the sentences in this sentence are similar to “that which”, you can tell if the sentences aren’t?

    All the companies now have their own websites. But what is the importance of Google? Do you think Google is overtaking you?

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  • Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.

    * is absent.

    What do you believe about the desire to fight?

    Is bracketed constituent not noun clause, but NPs (noun phrases) in fused relative constructions. Infinitivals are part of the NPs, where they function as catenative complements of the catenative verbs “expect” and “believe”.

    But “who(m)” does not occur in fused relatives other than as alternant to “watter” in the free choice construction, which is not the case here, and hence is ungrammatical.

    by contrast is fine. A NP: A NP functions as the Predicative Complement of “be” in its specifying sense. The bracketed NP is comparable to the thing which we believe to be’set’ in his mind.

    What should I do to stay updated with trends on social media?

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  • Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.

    What does everyone want to call a ‘neoclassical compound’? a compound where at least one of the components is a combining form, usually of Greek or Latin origin.

    Such compounds figure prominently in scientific terminology, as well as in learned vocabulary generally: “astronaut”, pseudonym”, “psychology”.

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