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French Articles Grammar Quiz

By admin, December 11, 2010 9:53 pm

Fun Points Quiz For Grammar/Words Enthusiast! – See Below [Phrase 7]?

* The French are glad to die for love.

All you have to do for points, is to break-down and analyze the sentence, however complicated or simple it appears to be. The major points will be working out the function of the words (whether they are nouns, pronouns, adverbs, indefinite articles… etc) or any other facts about the words; is it alliteration, an erroneous sentence or a famous quotation? Sometimes they will be random words, other times not so, the best answer points go to the most concise answer, indeed if you are the only person to answer the question then kudos to you, however let’s hope for a little more competition, remember the phrase is ;

* The French are glad to die for love.

This will be so much fun!!!
The word “The” is an article modifying the word “French”, “French” is the subject of the sentence, and is a proper noun.
“are” is a verb.
“glad” is a subject complement modifying “French. “to die” is a prepositional phrase acting as an adverb modifying “glad”
“for love” is another prepositional phrase acting as an adverb modifying “to die”.
I believe the quote is some sort of opening line for a book, but which one i do not know.

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