This tag is for questions about the form, function, and syntactic relationships of each word in a sentence.
Questions tagged [parsing]
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How to parse these crazy sentences
I have enough Unicoins to buy "Guaranteed answer" today.
So, instead of asking how to parse only one sentence as I should, I will ask "how to parse these following seven sentences". (Why ask one if I can ask seven! grin)
One morning I shot an…
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Parsing "I was in the soup now good."
I came across this sentence in an article by John McPhee but I'm unable to parse it. Could you please help me parse it?
The sentence reads
By the end of 1945, I had passed the point of no return. I was in the soup now good.
Basically, I can't…
user126190
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What is the subject of “With great power comes great responsibility.”?
With great power comes great responsibility.
What is the subject of the sentence? Is “With great power” the subject? Could you please give me more sentences written in that grammar?
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Parsing “have a limited release the product”
We'll have a limited release the product and let this region serve as a guinea pig.
From The Free Dictionary
I saw this sentence on The Free Dictionary and I'm stuck in interpreting it.
Is the verb ‘have’ acting as causative verb and ‘a limited’…
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How paradoxical that the world’s greatest chefs
How paradoxical that the world’s greatest chefs have all been men!
Cooking would clearly seem to be a field that lies exclusively within
women’s realm, yet the annals of cookery are replete with masculine
names: Brillat Savarin, Ritz, Diat,…
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How to parse "contango at prompt"?
Here's an extract of a professional newsletter in the petroleum industry.
It concerns the cost of crude oil in relation to storage capacity.
“The cost of storage in the U.S. is high today because tank space is
scarce and thus you have a wide…
P. O.
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Why is there a "to" before increase?
Today I read the below sentence:
The employment rate has continued to rise in big cities thanks to the efforts of the local governments to increase it.
Why is there a "to" used before word "increase"? It reads strangely to me. Is this sentence…
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Parsing "Moving Mountains"
I found an album named "Moving Mountains" and I was wondering how I was supposed to understand it. To me there are two meanings:
The action of moving mountains
Mountains that can move by themselves
How do I know which one they meant? Did they mean…
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What is "good night" in "She kisses them good night and puts them to bed"?
She kisses them good night and puts them to bed.
Is "good night" a direct object of "kisses"?
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Is this "copper" a verb or a noun? -- "[The ideal choice] would seem to be copper itself."
what is the place of this word "copper" in the following sentence?
The ideal choice, when isotopic composition is used to investigate the source of copper ore, would seem to be copper itself.
verb or noun? Copper word in the Oxford Dictionary is a…
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Can the infinitive form of a verb be considered an object?
This question was given to a friend of mine:
at the moment, I peered at the water and made the decision to plunge in
How many verbs are there?
She said three (peered, made, plunge in) and I would agree with her. Anyway the teacher said two.
We…
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Help parse "the sanctions come as travel bans and asset freezes... failed to ..."
The sanctions come as travel bans and asset freezes aimed at President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle failed to force the country to meet an ultimatum to end support for separatists in two mainly Russian-speaking regions in eastern Ukraine.
Russia…
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Can a verb be an object complement like the verb "boil" in this sentence?
Could someone please parse this sentence?
She watched the pot boil slowly.
Also, does slowly here refer to the process of boiling or "her" act of watching the pot boil?
user126190
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What is the grammatical structure of “is in large measure hereditary”?
I saw the below sentence from LSAT and I can't parse out the grammar of the first clause.
Fur color is in large measure hereditary, for black cats are more likely than others to have black kittens.
According to the MW dictionary, "hereditary" is…
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Not sure if this is right
The original text:
Recently some studies were made in the behaviour of mice when exposed to more than a certain degree of density, frustration, and noise, and the mice just became deranged.
Is it supposed to be something like this?
Recently some…
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