What is the difintion of a noun clause?
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A noun clause is a clause which does the work of a noun in a sentence. It is a group of words containing a subject and a finite verb of its own.
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I think a general noun is a noun that is non-specific. i.e. bird rather than dove etc\nIf that is the case then teacher would be professional or maybe educator. School would be institution and receptionist would be job or administrator.
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It typically means that you are missing the noun subject of a sentence or the verb. It will also come up if an offending sentence is a just a clause, e.g. "If the boy were walking his dog". It will also show up if a sentence is too wordy with lots of parenthetical expressions without the proper use of commas, semicolons, colons , etc.\n\nHope this helps!
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It is a question of style\n\nThe use of the definite article "the" gives more emphasis on the prepositional phrases.\n\nconsider\n\n"it prevents elimination"\n\nand "it prevents the elimination" (of what?)\n\nprepositional phrases function much the same was as an adjective, they modify a noun in this sentence.  By emphasizing the noun with "the" you emphasize the prepositional phrases, relative clauses, and adjectives that go along with it.\n\nuse of "the" also emphasizes that the words assimilation and elimination are nouns and not verbs.\n\nIf you are descibing a process such as digestion, I would not use "the", because you have more emphasis on the process, a verb.  If you are describing the effects of a drug or the results of an experiment, the emphasis is no longer on how something happend but on what happend.  I would use "the" in this case.
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d.  The way to tell when you have a compound noun is to remove the other noun E.g.  A)Please give I your undivided attention.  That makes no sense.  Only d does.
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contain\nretain\nmountain\nfountain\nattain\ndetain\npertain\nentertain\nsustain\ncertain\nabstain
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No. It is incorrect. The case of who (nominative) and whom (objective) is ALWAYS determined by the way it functions in a relative clause when it begins the clause.\n\nTo illustrate: "(who, whom) service government servants" is the subordinate adjective clause. You will need who because it functions as the subject of the verb service within the clause, and the subject is always in the nominative case.\n\nNote: the subject of the sentence is We and the verb is Are.\n\nI hope this helps!!
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In all these sentences, the predicate is everything but the subject.  I'll tell you the subject, but the rest of the sentence would be the predicate.\n\n1. subject = YOU\n2. subject = HERE\n3. subject = (YOU) The 'you' is implied in this imperative sentence\n4. subject = RUTTER'S REQUIEM\n5. subject = THE SEVEN SECTIONS OF THE WORK\n6. subject = THE FIRST AND LAST MOVEMENTS\n7. subject = THE SECOND AND SIXTH SECTIONS\n8. subject = THE THIRD SECTION AND THE FIFTH MOVEMENT\n9. subject = THE VERY CENTER OF THE WORK, THE FOURTH SECTION\n10. subject = (YOU) The 'you' is implied in this imperative sentence\n\n.
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Grammars actually use different labels for it.\n\nTraditionally, used as in your example "each" is considered an adjective, because it serves, as adjectives generally do, to modify a noun.\n\nDefinition of "adjective" --\n"The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying"\nhttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=adjective\n\nThe American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/61/7/E0000700.html\n\nhttp://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0885349.html  --calls it an "indefinite adjective"\n\nhttp://www.lousywriter.com/pronouns_adjective.php\n\nSo, "technically" it IS an adjective.   But some, who quite reasonably wish to distinguish such words from adjectives in general, have created the label "determiners".\n\nhttp://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/determiners/determiners.htm\nbased on Understanding English Grammar by Martha Kolln. 4rth Edition. MacMillan Publishing Company: New York. 1994. \n\nStrictly speaking "each" is not an "indefinite PRONOUN" in this use, but only when it takes the place of a noun.  (The article above describes it as an "indefinite pronoun USED as a determiner", but it is important to see that such words have a different FUNCTION when used AS pronouns.)
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A definitive (precisely defined or explicit) article (part of speech used to indicate nouns and to specify their application).
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A phrase is a group of words that has either no subject or no predicate.\n opening the gate (no subject) \n the man at the counter (no predicate) \n across the river (a modifier: neither a subject nor a predicate) \n\nA clause is a group of words containing both a subject and a predicate.\n\nDependent Clauses cannot stand alone as  sentences.\nalthough the man held his daughter \nbecause Jerry was laughing at the joke \n \nIndependent Clauses can stand alone as a sentence.\nAlfred did not want to marry \nMy sister, Mariana, was talking about our mother
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Noun. (I believe it's also a direct object also.)\n"She" is a pronoun and is the subject of the sentence\nheld is the verb\nthe is an adjective modifying record\nall-time (which should be hyphenated) is also an adjective modifying record.\nRecord is a noun that is the direct object of the "She held" phrase.\nfor most wins is a prepositional phrase.
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the major verb in a sentence is the word ,is,
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a grammatical construction related to and dependent on another construction or embedded within it. English subordinate clauses are introduced by conjunctions (eg. if, when, until, for, because, although). Example: The chief will be happy if his people live peacefully with each other.
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An independent clause is a group of words that contains a subject and verb and expresses a complete thought. An independent clause is a sentence. \neg. The dog played outside.\nThe subject is: (The)dog\nThe verb is: played
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1) adjective; 2) prepositional phrase; 3) possessive; 4)adverb; 5) dependent clause; 6) intensifier
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an infinitive phrase is 'to' + a verb.\nA to the (any word followed directly by the is a noun, so that's a preposition phrase--to is used as a preposition)\nB no 'to', elminiate\nC no 'to', eliminate\nD  to + verb (go)