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2. English prepositions - Wikipedia

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   These prepositional phrase complements can be specified by the preposition or not. In the prepositional phrase apart from Jill, for example, the preposition apart requires that the complement include the preposition from. In the prepositional phrase since before the war, however, the preposition since does not require the preposition before and ...

3. Complement (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   In grammar, a complement is a word, phrase, or clause that is necessary to complete the meaning of a given expression. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Complements are often also arguments (expressions that help complete the meaning of a predicate ).

4. List of English prepositions - Wikipedia

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   The following are single-word intransitive prepositions. This portion of the list includes only prepositions that are always intransitive; prepositions that can occur with or without noun phrase complements (that is, transitively or intransitively) are listed with the prototypical prepositions.

5. Linking verb - Wikipedia

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   In addition to predicate adjectives and predicate nouns, [1] English allows for predicate prepositional phrases as well: John is behind the cocktail cabinet. [2] The following sentences include linking verbs. Roses are red. The detective felt sick. The soup tasted weird. Frankenstein's monster resembles a zombie. He quickly grew tired. You are ...

6. Copula (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   In that sentence, the noun phrase the book is the subject, the verb is serves as the copula, and the prepositional phrase on the table is the predicative expression. In some theories of grammar, the whole expression is on the table may be called a predicate or a verb phrase.

7. These Are the Only Ways You Should Be Using a Colon

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   Of course, the phrase in the film was spoken, not written, but you could use a colon here. You could also use a period and have the two clauses be separate sentences; they’d still be ...

8. Subject complement - Wikipedia

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   In traditional grammar, a subject complement is a predicative expression that follows a copula (commonly known as a linking verb), which complements the subject of a clause by means of characterization that completes the meaning of the subject. [1] When a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun functions as a subject complement, it is called a ...

9. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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   This simple sentence has one independent clause which contains one subject, dog, and one predicate, barked and howled at the cat. This predicate has two verbs, known as a compound predicate: barked and howled. (This should not be confused with a compound sentence.) In the backyard and at the cat are prepositional phrases.