how important is it to know which words the modifiers are modifying? I can identify the modifiers, but its tricky to identify the words they are modifying
@iynur The expansion occurred during his presidency, therefore "during his presidency" would be elaborating on the time frame of the expansion rather than TJ himself.
ugh idk why im hating this so much.. idk if its cuz i didnt pay attention to this stuff when i was younger but it feels like such a drag! i will skip this and come back
@NoaF123 I got it wrong too but i'm wondering if the kernel is just the "physicists were puzzled" and what the physicists were puzzled by is the existence of black holes as a modifier?
@NoaF123 I gotchu twin! I've been reading grammar books for fun for years now lol: the whole point of the 'black holes' sub-clause is to enunciate the larger clause from which it derives, in this case, the existence. This is primarily because if we strip the sentence all the way down and we're just left with the bare bones, the existence is all we need to know at a basic level. Of course, all the black holes do here is just give us details about what was so 'puzzling' for 'physicists' regarding "the existence" of something in the first place. If that makes any sense? If not, I can always reply here and do a little less jargon-esque response lol.
could someone explain why in q5 the predicate object is the spirit and not the elizabethan era? I am kind of confused about the hard and fast rules of modifier vs object
is it possible that for question 5, the writings could be the subject? after all what is the piece of text talking about? -- its these writings and they add the detail that these writings belong to William Shakespeare. Could anyone also see this line of thinking?
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how important is it to know which words the modifiers are modifying? I can identify the modifiers, but its tricky to identify the words they are modifying
I got them all wrong :(
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I was so lost on the first one and then I was locked in the rest.
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I think it helped once I realized that the filtered sentence could be stupid.
Question 3 was the one that got me, I thought black holes would've been the object.
@ErikKrauss Same !! It was not one at all apparently
this cooked me so bad...
was doing so good but then instead of the spirit i said the era im so unlocked
Im getting fried on these
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4/5. I got confused on Q3 i thought that black holes was a predicate but the comments explained by it wasn't
for #4 i'm kinda confused on why "during his presidency" is modfying "expanded" and not "Thomas Jefferson"?
@iynur The expansion occurred during his presidency, therefore "during his presidency" would be elaborating on the time frame of the expansion rather than TJ himself.
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ugh idk why im hating this so much.. idk if its cuz i didnt pay attention to this stuff when i was younger but it feels like such a drag! i will skip this and come back
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I'm not quite understanding how black holes are not an object?
@NoaF123 Same. He quickly went through that one with no explanation.
@NoaF123 I got it wrong too but i'm wondering if the kernel is just the "physicists were puzzled" and what the physicists were puzzled by is the existence of black holes as a modifier?
@NoaF123 I gotchu twin! I've been reading grammar books for fun for years now lol: the whole point of the 'black holes' sub-clause is to enunciate the larger clause from which it derives, in this case, the existence. This is primarily because if we strip the sentence all the way down and we're just left with the bare bones, the existence is all we need to know at a basic level. Of course, all the black holes do here is just give us details about what was so 'puzzling' for 'physicists' regarding "the existence" of something in the first place. If that makes any sense? If not, I can always reply here and do a little less jargon-esque response lol.
could someone explain why in q5 the predicate object is the spirit and not the elizabethan era? I am kind of confused about the hard and fast rules of modifier vs object
@AvaHosseini He did not capture the Elizabethan era, he captured the spirit of the era.
is it possible that for question 5, the writings could be the subject? after all what is the piece of text talking about? -- its these writings and they add the detail that these writings belong to William Shakespeare. Could anyone also see this line of thinking?
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Billy Shakespeare 😂
kernels gang up 5/5