Timeline for I can't find the main verb here
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| Mar 19, 2015 at 0:01 | vote | accept | KeepCoding | ||
| Mar 19, 2015 at 0:01 | vote | accept | KeepCoding | ||
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| Mar 18, 2015 at 19:39 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @Araucaria I think this whatever = "everything, all"; there's no interrogative sense. | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 19:06 | comment | added | Araucaria - Not here any more. | @StoneyB Hmm, maybe, but not necessarily. Depends on what you think about gapping in the main clause. | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 18:54 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @Araucaria You were misled --as OP was confused-- by the OSV construction. | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 18:49 | comment | added | Araucaria - Not here any more. | @StoneyB Hmm, think you might be right. Have deleted my comment! | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 18:45 | comment | added | Araucaria - Not here any more. | @FumbleFingers Hmm, I need to think about that. EDIT: Yes, FF, you're right ... at least on one analysis of the sentence, but maybe altogether :) | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 18:41 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Araucaria: In my understanding, an "adjunct" is an optional component. That seems to me to be basic vocabulary, not specialist terminology. But in constructions like Whatever I have I owe to you the direct object (whatever I have) is required, not optional. | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 18:37 | comment | added | Araucaria - Not here any more. | @FumbleFingers No the whole clause whatever I have .... assured is an adjunct (adverbial in your terminology, I believe) :) | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 18:35 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Araucaria: It's not an adjunct in OP's context, whatever you might say! :) Terminology isn't my strong suit, but it's probably a relative determiner/pronoun. It's obviously some kind of "nouny" thing, since it's definitely serving as an "object" in OP's text (not in mine though). | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 18:21 | answer | added | CoolHandLouis | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 17:40 | answer | added | user8399 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 17:31 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | DIRECT OBJECT: "Whatever ... assured" SUBJECT: "I" VERB: "have gotten" | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 17:24 | history | asked | KeepCoding | CC BY-SA 3.0 |