hela
Senior Member
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- Apr 12, 2004
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- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Arabic
- Home Country
- Tunisia
- Current Location
- Tunisia
Dear teachers,
Would you please help me find the constituents of the following sentences ?
1) Thirty major corporations had made billions of dollars in profits
thirty...corporations = subject
had made = verb
billions of dollars in profits = complement
OR
billions of dollars = complement
in profits = ???
2) Twenty-six of the 30 companies continued to enjoynegative federal income tax rates.
twenty...companies = subject
continued to enjoy = transitive verb ?
negatjve...rates = direct object
What are the parts of speech of "continued to enjoy", please?
Thank you for your help.
Hela
Would you please help me find the constituents of the following sentences ?
1) Thirty major corporations had made billions of dollars in profits
thirty...corporations = subject
had made = verb
billions of dollars in profits = complement
OR
billions of dollars = complement
in profits = ???
2) Twenty-six of the 30 companies continued to enjoynegative federal income tax rates.
twenty...companies = subject
continued to enjoy = transitive verb ?
negatjve...rates = direct object
What are the parts of speech of "continued to enjoy", please?
Thank you for your help.
Hela