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HELP WITH GRAMMAR, IDENTIFICATION OF WORDS.

 
 
Reply Wed 21 Sep, 2005 02:12 pm
Could someone help to identify each word in this sentence and its function:

"Out of the mist stepped a man holding a vegetable omlet."
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Wed 21 Sep, 2005 05:06 pm
out = preposition
of = preposition
the = adjective (definite article)
mist = noun
stepped = verb
a = adjective (indefinite article)
man = noun
holding = adverb
a = adjective (indefinite article)
vegetable = adjective
omlet - noun.

"Man" is the subject, "stepped" the predicate. "Holding a vegetable omlet" is an adverbial phrase and "out of the mist" is a prepositional phrase.

I wish all homework assignments were as easy as that.
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spendius
 
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Reply Wed 21 Sep, 2005 05:11 pm
MA-

It looked good but don't ever try it with Proust.
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Wed 21 Sep, 2005 05:18 pm
Mais j'aime "Les Temps Perdu."
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 21 Sep, 2005 05:42 pm
We spell it omelette
I've never tried a vegetable omelette; are they any good?

So why was there so much mist in the kitchen?

Or was it an early breakfast at Boy Scout Camp?

Just wondering.
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Boephe
 
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Reply Sun 25 Sep, 2005 07:45 am
my frined went to Reunion Island and he was staying so high up in the mountains that when someone left a door open the morning mist came in and his head was in the clouds when he got up. Maybe the man was in Reunion Island.
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flyboy804
 
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Reply Sun 25 Sep, 2005 12:26 pm
From the sentence I would guess that Wendi is studying verbals (infinitives, gerunds and participles). "holding a vegetable omelet" is a participial phrase in which "holding" is a participle (verb used as an adjective).
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