Grammar structure QA #1
2017/07/23
WIP
Q1
It was a body capable of enormous leverage
I will separate this sentence into two part, “It was a body” and “capable of enormous leverage”. I am not sure what it is of the second part in grammar structure.
Q2
The younger of the two was a stranger to me
I am not sure about the part “to me”.
I assume it is either an:
- adverbial
- attribute
to modify the stranger or the whole sentence.
From here https://www.englishgrammar.org/subject-attributes/ we can know what is an attribute in Noun Phrase.
The attribute of a noun may be an adjective, an article, a pronoun, a participle, an infinitive or a phrase.
What I am sure about is “me” is an indirect object of the preposition “to”, and “to me” is a prepositional phrase. From here raise a question: what is the difference between ‘infinitive’ and ‘prepositional phrase’.
Update 2017/07/24:
I asked a question on Quora that is not about this question but indirectly answered this question.
- https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-English-expression-for-questions-about-the-English-sentence-structure/answer/Markus-Rauscher-1?srid=uYhO
- https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-English-expression-for-questions-about-the-English-sentence-structure/answer/Kerry-Kiefer-1?srid=uYhO
Update 2017/07/27:
There are five basic structures of sentence. But adverbial and attribute are optional, and they can be omitted.
So the structure of this sentence is S + V + O + O, “to me” is the indirect object.
Update 2017/07/31:
Answer is here, http://facweb.furman.edu/~moakes/Powerwrite/partspeech.htm. “to me” is an indirect object.
a noun or pronoun that come before or behind a direct object, and tells to whom or for whom or what the action is done. EX: I gave the ball to Jack.
