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avid_learner
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 Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:27 am Post subject: what is "five" in this sentence? |
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Five of the children came here.
I know five is the subject. Is five a pronoun representing children, or is it a noun? |
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Anuradha Chepur
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:00 am Post subject: |
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Five of the children is the subject.
Five is a numeral adjective. |
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Mary W. Ng
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:36 pm Post subject: Re: what is "five" in this sentence? |
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| Five of the children came here. |
The subject is five of the children; the simple subject is the numeral pronoun five, referring to the noun children.
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