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Breaking down this sentence
Hello! I need some help with this sentence:
Her glasses fell through a crack in the bridge.
What's the subject, object, and all that? Is the subject glasses or her? And is "crack in the bridge" simply the predicate? Or is it like noun + prep. + definite article + noun ? Or both?
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Re: Breaking down this sentence
Her glasses <subject>
fell <verb>
through a crack <prepositional phrase>
in the bridge <prepositional phrase modifying "a crack">
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Re: Breaking down this sentence

Originally Posted by
lauralie2
Her glasses <subject>
fell <verb>
through a crack <prepositional phrase>
in the bridge <prepositional phrase modifying "a crack">
"Her glasses" could also be called the "complete subject" and "fell" the simple predicate as opposed to "fell through a crack in the bridge" as the complete predicate.
Frank
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Re: Breaking down this sentence

Originally Posted by
Frank Antonson
"Her glasses" could also be called the "complete subject" and "fell" the simple predicate as opposed to "fell through a crack in the bridge" as the complete predicate.
Frank
Right. Everything after the subject is the predicate. The subject is "glasses", "her" its modification. The whole phrase "her glasses" is predicated.
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Re: Breaking down this sentence
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