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Understanding omission of prepositions
And its court for the trial of impeachments and correction of errors, is to consist of one branch of the legislature and the principal members of the judiciary department.
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What part of the sentence is this called
FumbleFingers is right. In this sentence the phrase is the subject:
My favourite place, Montpellier, was in the news today.
In this sentence it is the object:
I often return to my favourite place, ...
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How to analyze the structure of this sentence?
The number of people and even the percentage of the population both living in extreme poverty has really gone down over the past two centuries.
The idea wasn't properly articulated. both could be ...
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