Grammatical Names and Functions

What is the grammatical name of the expression, "a great picnic in the sentence below.

It was a great picnic.

• Adverbial phrase

• Noun clause

• Noun phrase

• Adjectival clause

What makes an expression a clause?

What is the grammatical name of the expression, "because I was very hungry" in the sentence below.

Because I was very hungry, I had to sit on the floor to eat my food comfortably.

• Adverbial clause

• Adverbial phrase

• Adjectival clause

• Prepositional phrase

Identify the grammatical function of "who lives in me" in the expression below.

He who lives in me is greater than the world.

• It modifies the noun, "the world"

• It qualifies the verb, "lives"

• It qualifies or modifies the adjective "greater"

• It qualifies or modifies the pronoun, "He"

Seeing them gives me joy.

Identify the grammatical function of "seeing them" in the sentence above.

• It is the subject of the verb, "gives"

• It modifies or qualifies the verb, "gives"

• It is the complement of the noun, "joy"

• It is the complement of the subject "Seeing them"