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[hela]

Dear teachers,

Would you please check my analysis ?

1) The Himalayas is one of the eight most difficult mounts to climb.

One = ordinal used as an indefinte pronoun
Eight = ordinal used as ????
Most = superlative used as an adverb
Difficult = descriptive adjective
Mounts = noun
To = preposition
Climb = non-finite verb ??

The Himalayas = S
is = verb
one of the ... mounts + to climb (?) = subject complement ?
(or should "to climb" be analysed separately ?)

2) Mr Parker was once one of the best teachers in this school.

Mr Parker = S
was = intensive verb
once = adverbial of time
one of the best teachers of this school = subject complement ?

Thanks again for your kindness,
Hela

[Anuradha Chepur]

Hello,

This one is a bit challenging. I will post a reply shortly.

[Mister Micawber]

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1) The Himalayas is one of the eight most difficult mounts to climb.

One = ordinal used as a pronoun-- one = one mount. I do not think this is the same as the indefinite pronoun (one should always stay sober)
Eight = ordinal used as adjective
Most = adverb used as superlative
Difficult = descriptive adjective
Mounts = noun
To = infinitive particle
Climb = non-finite verb. Infinitive, to be specific

The Himalayas = S
is = verb
one of the ... mounts + to climb = subject complement


2) Mr Parker was once one of the best teachers in this school.

Mr Parker = S
was = intensive verb -- what is an 'intensive verb'?-- we do not have them in English, to my knowledge.
once = adverbial of time
one of the best teachers of this school = subject complement
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[hela]

Thank you Mr Micawber.

I made a mistake, sorry, "one" and "eight" are cardinal not ordinal numbers.

All the best,
Hela

[Mister Micawber]

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Oh, yes-- I missed that too!
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[Anuradha Chepur]

Having given Hela a commitment, I now wanted to attempt her sentence-analysis, but now I would instead thank Mr. Micawber for doing it.

[Mister Micawber]

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Don't worry-- Hela will have plenty more for you to comment on. Maybe she will give you some sentence transformation exercises to play with.
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"I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences." � Gertrude Stein
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Canadian-American who teaches English for a living at Mr Micawber's