Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Clauses and Phrases
Just wondering how correct the following analysis is, of a rather long sentence, I came across on a book cover.
“Amid the chaos of 1970's counter-culture, he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before.”
Amid the chaos of 1970's counter-culture,= Prepositional phrase of time
he retreats to his ancestral home = Main clause
of Grass Valley, California, = Adjectival phrase
to write = Verbal phrase
the biography = Noun phrase
of his grandmother:= Adjectival phrase
an elegant =Adjectival phrase
an elegant and headstrong artist = Adjectival phrase
an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer =Adjectival phrase
an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, =Adjectival phrase
made =Verb
her own journey =Noun phrase
through the hardscrabble West =Adjectival phrase
nearly a hundred years before. = Prepositional phrase of time
Thanks
“Amid the chaos of 1970's counter-culture, he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before.”
Amid the chaos of 1970's counter-culture,= Prepositional phrase of time
he retreats to his ancestral home = Main clause
of Grass Valley, California, = Adjectival phrase
to write = Verbal phrase
the biography = Noun phrase
of his grandmother:= Adjectival phrase
an elegant =Adjectival phrase
an elegant and headstrong artist = Adjectival phrase
an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer =Adjectival phrase
an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, =Adjectival phrase
made =Verb
her own journey =Noun phrase
through the hardscrabble West =Adjectival phrase
nearly a hundred years before. = Prepositional phrase of time
Thanks
Top answer
"an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before" is one long noun phrase which is in apposition to "grandmother". "an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer" is the head noun. "who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before" is a relative clause.
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"an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before" is one long noun phrase which is in apposition to "grandmother".
"an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer" is the head noun.
"who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscra
"an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer" is the head noun.
"who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscra
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