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Note that “as,” usually a subordinate conjunction here functions the same as the
preposition “like” would.
det n adv pro v adj pro v det n prep n v adv n prep det
2. The town where I was born, which has a population of 3,000, offers very little in the
n prep n prep n
way of entertainment for teenagers.
adj n
“swaddling clothes.”
s part oprp v do s v
4. The hurricane bearing down on Florida frightened the residents who lived along the
part ph prp ph adj cl prp
oprp
coast.
ph
s part oprp v v do s v
5. Any book printed before 1501 is called an incunabulum which literally means
prp ph adj cl
do
“swaddling clothes.”
part oprp oprp s
6. Having been a police officer in downtown Nashville for thirty years, my neighbor
part ph prp ph prp ph
v padj padj s v oprp
grew restless and bored after he retired from the force.
adv cl
s v do inf oprp
7. This invitation thwarted his latest plan, to buy up a controlling number of stocks.
inf ph prp ph
oprp s v p. adj s v v
10. Until yesterday, I never realized how awesome a redwood tree could be.
prp ph n cl = do
Note: the noun clause uses an inversion of the usual subject-verb-object order. The
way the clause would read in usual grammatical order would be: “how a redwood
tree could be awesome.”