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Originally Posted by notmyname216 Ok, using what I have learned so far on the sentence below:
She has a note demanding money.
"Demanding" is not a adverb, can not move "demanding" for it to sound correct.
"she"=object "has"=verb, "note"=object, who="she", what="money"
"Demanding" is not a gerund.
"has" is not a "be" form of verb so "demanding" not a verb
"demanding" must be a adjective.
Is this correct?
If not, why not. |
She (subject) has (verb) a note demanding money (object).
Excellent analysis!
You've covered adverbs, gerunds, and verbs, but you left out adjectives.
When we add in a form of BE (is, am, was, were, etc.) between the object 'a note' and 'demanding money, this is what happens:
. . .a note
is demanding money.
The noun phrase 'a note' is the actor, or thing that's doing the 'demanding', so 'demanding' is part of a verb, which takes the word 'money' as its object, like this,
A note (subject)
is demanding (verb) money (object).
=> A note is asking for money.
But '
is' is not in our original sentence, so we can't say that 'demanding' is a verb. But by adding 'is' we've shown that we're dealing with an adjective, or a phrase that describes the noun 'a note':
Q:
What kind of a note?
A: A note
demanding money. (Adjective, Participial phrase)
Words that modify nouns are known as adjectives. So 'demanding money' functions as an adjectival phrase, specifically,
a participial phrase because the phrase has an ING word.
Hope that helps out.
