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reader
02-06-2008, 08:35 PM
Could you help me analyze this sentence?
I will walk and he will ride a bike.
Lucretia
02-06-2008, 10:56 PM
Hello reader,
What kind of analysis would you like to see?
reader
02-07-2008, 09:34 PM
Could you help me analyze this sentence?
I will walk and he will ride a bike.
What part of speech each word is and how they are used in the sentence.
Lucretia
02-07-2008, 11:38 PM
OK, reader, I will try.
I will walk and he will ride a bike. - a declarative sentence containing two clauses.
I will walk - the first clause.
I - a personal pronoun, the subject.
will - an auxiliary verb, the operator
walk - an infinitive.
will walk - the predicate.
and - a conjunction, the connector of the two clauses.
he will ride a bike - the second clause
he - a personal pronoun, the subject.
will ride - the predicate.
a bike - a noun, the direct object.
Rusty
02-08-2008, 03:51 AM
OK, reader, I will try.
I will walk and he will ride a bike. - a declarative sentence containing two clauses.
I will walk - the first clause.
I - a personal pronoun, the subject.
will - an auxiliary verb, the operator
walk - an infinitive.
will walk - the predicate.
and - a conjunction, the connector of the two clauses.
he will ride a bike - the second clause
he - a personal pronoun, the subject.
will ride - the predicate.
a bike - a noun, the direct object.
I can add a little more:
walk is an intransitive verb.
will walk is future tense.
a is an indefinite article.
reader
02-12-2008, 03:23 PM
OK, reader, I will try.
I will walk and he will ride a bike. - a declarative sentence containing two clauses.
I will walk - the first clause.
I - a personal pronoun, the subject.
will - an auxiliary verb, the operator
walk - an infinitive.
will walk - the predicate.
and - a conjunction, the connector of the two clauses.
he will ride a bike - the second clause
he - a personal pronoun, the subject.
will ride - the predicate.
a bike - a noun, the direct object.
:confused:what is an "operator"?
Lucretia
02-12-2008, 11:03 PM
Hello reader,
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any definition in my grammar books, so I'll explain it as I get it.
An operator is a syntactic term denoting a verb's role in a sentence.
An operator is an auxiliary, a finite or a modal verb which is followed by another verb. The latter bears the meaning, while the operator gives us additional or syntactic information and determines in what form the following verb should be, for example,
I will walk - will tells us it will happen in the future, it requires an infinitive without to.
Jack wants to go there - wants tells us it's in the present, in the third person singular and requires a to-infinitive.
The ship was badly damaged - was tells us it happened in the past and requires a past participle.
I wish a professional grammarian could correct me if I'm wrong.
Best wishes.:)
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