Timeline for What's the subject of this sentence? Does it miss a "it" before pales?
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| Mar 1, 2021 at 16:05 | vote | accept | wtdark | ||
| Aug 16, 2020 at 7:09 | comment | added | BillJ | @wtdark You are welcome. It is very important to distinguish form and function. In your example, the subject is not a noun but a clause. Learners often think that all subjects are noun phrases, which is of course untrue. (Incidentally, I teach English grammar). | |
| Aug 16, 2020 at 7:00 | comment | added | wtdark | @BillJ, I agree with you and I also agree with him. It is a non-finite clause with "yet" as an adv. Thank you all for helping me. | |
| Aug 16, 2020 at 6:52 | vote | accept | wtdark | ||
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| Aug 16, 2020 at 6:07 | comment | added | BillJ | In the original example "Yet even boosting vaccine funding tenfold to $100bn or more.. is a non-finite clause functioning as subject. Take that on board, and stop wrong answers. As a non-native speaker and learner, you should take advice from teachers. | |
| Aug 15, 2020 at 19:37 | comment | added | Barid Baran Acharya | Better go through the definitions of gerunds and participles before branding something nonsensical. | |
| Aug 15, 2020 at 19:08 | comment | added | BillJ | There's no such thing as "double parts of speech". That is utter nonsense, who told you that? The parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective etc. Functions are subject, object, complement, modifier etc. In the original example "yet even boosting vaccine funding tenfold to $100bn or more ..." is a non-finite clause functioning as subject of the sentence. | |
| Aug 15, 2020 at 19:00 | comment | added | Barid Baran Acharya | Gerund-participial is born out of verb but functions as noun; we call them double parts of speech. I don't like to bask in all these new found concepts.A noun is a noun because it is not verb. What metamorphosis does a verb undergo that it become gerund? I am inclined to call this gerund a verb because it ,as you say,has imbibed nothing new which to my reckoning is a new noun like identity . | |
| Aug 15, 2020 at 18:23 | comment | added | BillJ | Noun is a word category, not a function. You must realise that not everything that functions as a subject is a noun phrase. A subject may also consist of a finite (content) clause or a non-finite clause such as an infinitival or a gerund-participial clause. | |
| Aug 15, 2020 at 16:55 | comment | added | Barid Baran Acharya | All parts of speech are judged by their functions and it is a pity there are just eight of them. When you admit it to be gerund participle clause you are suggesting but not admitting that it is a noun. Otherwise who/ what could be a subject? | |
| Aug 15, 2020 at 16:27 | comment | added | Barid Baran Acharya | Noun is what function it serves; and the same is equally valid for all parts of speech. | |
| Aug 15, 2020 at 13:13 | comment | added | BillJ | Noun is not a function, like 'subject, 'object' etc. "Yet even boosting vaccine funding tenfold to $100bn or more, in line with the most ambitious proposals" is a gerund-participial clause functioning as subject. | |
| Aug 15, 2020 at 11:48 | history | answered | Barid Baran Acharya | CC BY-SA 4.0 |