Homework Help: english

Posted by jessy on Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 1:10pm.

Many notable poets often lived in the New England states.

In the above sentence i need to identify the subject modifiers in the sentence and the descriptive adjectives.
I believe the adjectives are New England, many and notable. What then would be the modifier of the subject? I
believe poets is the subject.

english - GuruBlue, Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 1:14pm
Yes! Poets is the subject.
Yes, many and notable both modify poets.

However, what does New England modify?
- english - jessy, Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 2:06pm
  new england modifys states??????????
english - GuruBlue, Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 3:14pm
Yes! exactly... good job.

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