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Many college students [living on their own for the first time] incur far too much debt. By virtue of being integrated into the syntactic structure, the bracketed clause is restrictive in that it ser …

... which in turn causes sea levels to rise, flooding many coastal regions [leading to loss of property and life.] The function of the bracketed non-finite clause is that of adjunct in clause struct …

What I had forgotten was that I had a test today. "What I had forgotten" is not a clause but an NP (noun phrase) in a 'fused' relative construction where the meaning is "the thing that I had forgott …

She is as tall as I am. You are correct; the second "as" is indeed a preposition; it is in construction with the first "as" which is an adverb of degree modifying "tall". The "I am" is a comparativ …

[1] I have no one to talk to. [3] I haven’t got anything to look at. The infinitival clauses here are relative. They are dependents within an NP headed by a preceding noun where the relativized elem …

Traditional grammar analyses "something" as a pronoun, but a more modern approach takes it as a compound determinative. …

Yes, the clause subordinator "that" is optional in your examples. Sometimes with declarative content clauses "that" is obligatory, sometimes optional, and sometimes inadmissible. Compare: [1] Tha …

There was rice enough for all four of them all right "Enough" belongs to the category (part of speech) determinative (subtype sufficiency determinative) and its function here is that of post-head …

Each coordinate could stand alone as a sentence, and hence traditional grammar calls this a compound sentence By contrast, [2] has a lower-level coordination where this time the coordinates are just verb …

Just because Molly sent me here for something else, doesn't mean she'll accept my/me not asking you a few more questions. No is the simple answer. Both the genitive pronoun "my" and the accusative "m …

His parents didn't want him /* he to go. "He" is impossible her. The pronoun is the syntactic object of the verb "want", and hence takes accusative case "him". The pronoun is also the understoo …

I got him [to go to the shop]. The sentence contains two clauses -- a matrix one and a subordinate one -- and hence two verbs. The matrix clause has "I" as subject and "got" as its verb. The brac …

“John” is of course the recipient in [2], just as he is in [1], and traditional grammar does call him the indirect object. … It all boils down to traditional grammar vs modern grammar, the latter being more accurate and logical. …

Chairs [left outside] get taken. The bracketed constituent is a past-participial clause modifying "chairs". Past-participials (and gerund-participials) are semantically similar to relative clause …

our schools, our voices, our teachers, our surroundings. No, there is no need to add the s after "our" in those examples. Genitive personal pronouns have two forms: a dependent one which is not …