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["A scene of almost unspeakable beauty presented itself], [lights of every imaginable colour were issuing from the southern heavens],” he would later recall. The two bracketed clauses are independen …

It shames us as a nation [that a freedom fighter has to scrape a living singing in the streets]. That bracketed element is a declarative content clause. This is an extraposition construction with th …

The manuscript shall be submitted. This is a passive clause in which "submitted" is a verb past participle. Note the possibility of adding a by- phrase: "The manuscript shall be submitted by th …

Indiana is one of a few states where students who attend schools [separated by county lines, no more than a few miles apart], spend seven months a year living in different time zones. The bra …

He seemed to know that the teacher was planning to resign. There is no object here. "Seem" is a catenative verb and this is a catenative construction where the infinitival clause "to know that th …

Give me money and I shall [spend it]. Work hard and you will [succeed]. They are already complex. "Spend it" is a subordinate (dependent) clause functioning as complement of "shall", and …

They take any faults [identified in themselves] and put them onto others. It's fine, and it doesn't need "that were" to be grammatical or meaningful. The bracketed element is a past-participial clau …

Let’s get a taxi home after the concert. A number of words like "home" can suggest a spatial complement, directional or locative, in which case they are best classified as prepositions. In your exa …

The technology, [often so prescient it borders on creepy,] has made Chinese counterparts very profitable too. The commas mark the bracketed adjective phrase as a supplement, a loosely attached expre …

Although he had never taken piano lessons, anytime that Jeff, who was unusually intelligent, saw a piano, he was able to play a song. If you want to identify the 'core' of the sentence, you must fir …

[1] Why my new year has to go exactly opposite to what I have planned? [2] Why does my new year have to go exactly opposite to what I have planned? In main clause interrogatives, if the interrogativ …

I saw something to approach me. This is ungrammatical. Verbs of sensory perception like see, hear, feel etc. take bare infinitivals (the kind without to) as complement, not to infinitivals. …

He offered to lend the book to the student. "He" is the subject and the verb phrase "to lend the book to the student” is the main predicate. Within the VP is the subordinate infinitival clause " …

The best way to enjoy a fine wine is slowly. Generally AdvPs modify verbs where they are adjuncts. But they can also occur as complement to the verb be in its specifying sense, as here. Note th …

I am [to go]. English does not have an infinitive form of the verb in the way that, say, French does. "To go" is not a verb; it's two words, the subordinator "to" and the verb "go". "To" is a separa …