La Texican Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 I'm reading wwe and considering how you would diagram the first sentence, "There were no roads." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8filltheheart Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Roads=subject no=adj were=verb there=adv ETA: There was (couldn't resist starting my sentence this way!!) recently a conversation about this construction on the high school forum. http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/475984-english-majors-and-british-english-speakers-is-this-wrong/#entry5008212 The "dummy subject" is an alternative label. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Texican Posted June 19, 2013 Author Share Posted June 19, 2013 Thank you, I couldn't figure out where the "there" goes. Now I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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