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[hela]

Dear teachers,

Would you please tell me if my analysis is correct ?

1) "He showed his father his sincerity by cooperating with all his teachers at school."

a) He = subject
b) showed = ditransitive verb
c) his father = indirect object
d) his sincerity = direct object
e) by cooperating with all his teachers at school = adverbial of manner (?)

2) "Alice Roosevelt was the daughter of American President Theodore. She was a popular personality and frequently wore a certain shade of blue. That shade became known as Alice-blue."

That shade = subject
became = copular verb
known as Alice-blue = subject / adjectival complement (?)

Have I missed something?

Many thanks,
Hela

PS: Would somebody have more simple sentences (with either the same of different sentence patterns) for me to analyze? Some difficult ones ?

[helen1]

Hi Hela!!!!

I've come up for some air - finished 3 assingments, one more to do before the end of January - anyway to your question/analysis.....

[hela]

Thank you Helen,

I've had a look at the website you gave me. It is really interesting and I'll study it carefully. However it doesn't explain how to analyse the function of the various elements of grammar. If ever you find one that gives the different sentence patterns in English with exercises, please send it to me.

Yes, I know that when you analyse the form of a word like "gently" in a sentence (part of speech) you call it "adverb" but when you try to find its function in the sentence you call it an "adverbial" is that so?

Have YOU got some interesting sentences to give me for analysis?

Some other questions please:

1) What is an adverbial of mode ?

2) How many kinds of adverbials are there in English ?

a) time
b) place
c) manner
d) reason
e) purpose
f) result
g) mode (?)

any more... ?

3) Would you please give the difference between an adverbial of reason and an adverbial of purpose?

Thank you very much for your help.
Hela

[BMO]

Quote:

1) "He showed his father his sincerity by cooperating with all his teachers at school."

a) He = subject
b) showed = ditransitive verb
c) his father = indirect object
d) his sincerity = direct object
e) by cooperating with all his teachers at school = adverbial of manner (?)


Correct! - the only comment is that we generally just label Adverbial as Adverbial - as you obviously know it is a completely different thing to Adverb
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Is (e) an prepositional phrase modifying show ?

Thanks.