I am having trouble with identifying what thw words in a sentence are and groups of words. I will write a random sentence and could you please identify the words I have choosen. I will look at what you have choosen and understand why you have choosen so. Thanks in advance:
Amy thinks that Mike lost her dog, Zoey. Zoey was brave and valiant, she was not a coward. Zoey loved her and Mike hated her. Mike was a conceited child with no feelings towards others. Amy was shattered when she thought her precious dog was lost, all alone and unprotected.
Please indentify the following words or groups of words:
Amy
lost her dog
all alone and unprotected
child
her (zoey loved "her")
others
thinks
P.S: For nouns please to wrote noun, can i have the function of the noun. Same with verb (Ex. oxilary, action, infinitive) and the others. Thank-You so much.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm
In this list, be sure to look up the following. Then tell us what YOU think the words are, and someone here will give you feedback.
noun
pronoun
verb
adjective
subject
predicate
direct object
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I have the definitions. I am having trouble with that group of words like, "becuase she wanted to," and the functions of a noun. Im am having trouble with clauses.
Amy thinks that Mike lost her dog, Zoey. Zoey was brave and valiant, she was not a coward. Zoey loved her and Mike hated her. Mike was a conceited child with no feelings towards others. Amy was shattered when she thought her precious dog was lost, all alone and unprotected.
Please indentify the following words or groups of words:
Amy
lost her dog
all alone and unprotected
child
her (Zoë loved "her")
others
thinks
Amy: direct object
Lost her dog: ???
all alone and unprotected- adjective clause
child- subject of the verb
her- subject of the verb
others- indriect object
thinks- verb (what type ???)
These are guesses cause you said to try.
If you understand the definitions, then you know that "Amy" cannot be an object. What is the name of the word that indicates who is doing the action of the verb?
Verbs indicate the action that is going on in a clause.
Adjectives describe nouns (and sometimes pronouns).
Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns so we don't keep repeating the nouns all the time.
Normal word order in English sentences is this: subject - verb - direct object.
I'll get you started with the first sentence. Then you really need to apply the definitions you have so that you learn these things and don't expect others to do your assignments for you.
"Amy thinks that Mike lost her dog, Zoey." (This is a complex sentence, by the way.)
Amy = subject of main clause
thinks = verb of main clause
that = introducing the subordinate clause
Mike = subject of subordinate clause
lost = verb of subordinate clause
her = possessive pronoun
dog = direct object of "lost"
Zoey = appositive of "dog"
So ... using the above information, what will you say for the rest?
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"Zoey was brave and valiant, she was not a coward. Zoey loved her and Mike hated her."
You may have trouble with this because it's a run-on. That is, it's really two sentences punctuated incorrectly. Where should there be a period and a capital?
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"Zoey was brave and valiant, she was not a coward."
In these sentences, you will not find direct objects because the verbs are linking verbs, not action verbs. (Be sure to look those terms up in the Index link I gave you above.) Instead of subject - verb - direct object [S V DO] for word order in this type of sentence, you'll have subject - linking verb - predicate noun or predicate adjective [S LV PN/PA].
"Zoey loved her and Mike hated her."
Two clauses here; therefore, two sets of subject/verb combinations. Both will be S V DO sentences.
"Mike was a conceited child with no feelings towards others."
This sentence is S LV PN type.
"Amy was shattered when she thought her precious dog was lost, all alone and unprotected."
This sentence has three clauses -- a main clause and two subordinate clauses.
It'll be like this:
S V [main clause] S V [1st sub. clause] S LV PA [2nd sub. clause].
In my definitions is sadi that the direct object is the word reieving the action. Then wouldn't Amy be a direct object because she is the one thinking?
"Zoey loved her and Mike hated her."
Is that a principle clause?
Amy is doing the action. She is the one thinking. Therefore, she is the subject.
The receiver of the action would be demonstrated like this:
Jack hit the baseball.
Jack = = V
baseball = DO [The baseball is the receiver of the action, hitting.]
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There are two clauses here -- two sets of subject/verb combination. First find the verbs; then ask yourself who is doing the action of each verb <~~that will give you the subject for each one.
When you have two main clauses like this (no subordinate clauses), it's called a compound sentence.
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The two parts of the compound sentence is joined by a co-ordinate conjunction, and. Right? Then what woulf the indivual sentences be like, "Zoey loved her." "Mike hated her."
Zoey- subject
Mike-subject
loved-verb
hated-verb
her-pronoun (theres another word for it do you know?? Some function of a noun, is it direct object??)
Ok, I get it. Thank-you. Please reply to my other question above. Thanks a lot.
The two parts of the compound sentence is joined by a co-ordinate conjunction, and. Right? CORRECT Then what would the indivual sentences be like, "Zoey loved her." "Mike hated her." CORRECT
Zoey- subject CORRECT
Mike-subject CORRECT
loved-verb CORRECT
hated-verb CORRECT
her-pronoun (theres another word for it do you know?? Some function of a noun, is it direct object??) CORRECT; and yes -- pronoun serving as direct object
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You're very welcome.
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Wow, I finally got it thank-you.
Excellent work!!
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