@hisakoevans - Hi Hisako. I believe that would be called a "present participle phrase,' but in the example you present I might also say that it's an appositive which describes "political economy" and begins with a gerund, "indicating." I try not to get too hung up on the terms used to describe grammar. Some people make a big deal out of it, but I think it's more important to look at the examples. Perhaps I should make a video for appositives.
@rivosuoth - Well, "on spring break" describes who the students are, so the sentence you created has a different meaning. Some of the students might not be on spring break. I could say, "The students not on spring break this week are attending classes," or.... The students who are not on spring break this week are attending classes.
Adjective/relative clauses that provide extra information that is not essential require a comma. For example, My daughter, who is from California, got married. If I took out the relative clause the sentence still makes sense, in terms of carrying the main message, which is that the person's daughter got married. The use of commas to separate this relative/dependent clause from the main clause also means the person has only one daughter.
Yes, Relative clauses with or without commas can also be called - identifying and non identifying. All the non terms are for those relative clauses with commas and those without commas do not take the non. Hope that helps cheers
Even though I dislike watching videos whose quality is bad, I really liked this video. Firstly, it is pretty clear he gives informative examples then explains one by one. Secondly, this video is really short and therefore this feature makes RU-vid videos better to be seen. In other words, it is not boring so that we cannot be bored while watching. Thank you so much. 💙🙏🤓
That was such a cool lesson teacher Paul , thanks a lot . In portuguese we use the adjective clause more often but the adjetive phrase is also used as well . Once again , thank you for another amazing lesson.
There are many different terms used to describe the teaching of grammar. I take a descriptive approach and consider the way that people actually use language--in the case English--for the purpose of communication. Generally, I stay away from terms such as the one you mention above because they can be a distraction.
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Another grand video of yours! To begin with, I am from Germany and I also learned how to use this sentence structure. However, our teacher told us that a sentence structure like this is called "participle structure" , but she never mentioned the term "adjective phrase ". So I think it would be a great idea to add something like "(partciple structure)" at the end of the name of the video so that each and every student of the English language can find this video. have a nice day
hello teacher !! i have example such as : the man who visted my grandma is my uncle (like this) ====> the man visting (or visted ) my ..... uncle . when we have the verb in past simple in adj clause sentence then we change it to adj phrase . we change the verb -ing or v-ed . thanks sir
As always, excellent class. I have a question. All students who are Peruvian won the game = All students Peruvian won the game = All Peruvian students won the game. Have these sentences the same meaning ? In the first and the second I have the technic taught in this lesson while the third is a sentence with the adjective put in its classic form, that is before the noun ``students''
Now, if you delete the commas, and use exactly the same sentence, it means (who is from California) is essential. The reason why the relative clause is essential in this case is because without the commas, the person has more than one daughter, and the relative clause needs to be included to say which daughter is getting married - in this case the daughter from California. Relative clauses with and without commas are variously known as defining/non-defining - restrictive/non restrictive -
@hisakoevans "What did exist was called “political economy,” indicating that it was part of national policy more than anything else and that it concerned such subjects as taxes, public debts, and foreign trade." I've corrected your statement... What was called "political economy" indicated national policy more than anything else, concerning subjects such as taxes, public debts, and foreign trade. Cheers
"We met the people who are moving in the next door" is a sentence in which the relative pronoun modifies the object of the sentence. As i know, we can't reduce relative clauses when relative pronouns modify the object of the sentence.
We met the people moving in next door. 'people' is object, so 'moving in next door' is adj phrase describing the object of the sentence 'people'. Correct?
Without adj clause (who are watching this VDO) becomes: "The people are learning English". We don't know who are "the people", unless there's a context before it. Am I correct? Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
The man (driving the truck) is tired. 'driving the truck' is adj phrase and 'is tired' is adjective also. A sentence can have adj phrase and adjective for both are describing the same subject. Correct? Thanks.
Teacher, I want to ask a question. In my country, the use of adj clause or adj phrase makes people confused, sometimes the speaker get confused too. Does it happen in English? For example take a look at 4:54. Could "on spring break" be thought of as Adverb so, the sentence goes like this, On spring break, all of students are coming back this week. I mean since to me this is confusing both in my language and in English, is it so for English speakers? In my language we call it as ambiguity.
Thank you for helping sir. The court dismissed the appeal and affirmed the appellant 's sentence and conviction imposed by the high court. Sir in that sentence imposed is had been imposed? Thank you if you answer me
Sir. I want to know that - Can we form a sentence like this : The people who have red cars are leaving the town. The people having red cars are leaving the town. ??? Can we???
