# FI grammar article Part 2-5 \[AM\] **URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/fi-grammar-article-part-2-5-am/1968 **Category:** Projects **Created:** [October 12, 2024, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/fi-grammar-article-part-2-5-am/1968 "2024-10-12T09:16:04Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 31
### Author: ![ActiveMind](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/activemind/32/5560_2.png) [@ActiveMind](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/ActiveMind) #### Post date: [October 17, 2024, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/fi-grammar-article-part-2-5-am/1968/31 "2024-10-17T11:03:53Z")
# Looking for errors in part 3 I looked at [@Eternity Async Tutoring](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/eternity-async-tutoring/1932/507) and [@Fire’s second grammar project](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/learning-grammar-2-more-parts-trees-and-sentence-analyses/551) to compare. I’ll bring up some differences where I don’t think I have the error as well. * * * > [@ActiveMind](#): > > 1. “I don’t want to stand on my porch when it’s wet.” > [@ActiveMind](#): > > - object (noun infinitive): to stand > - prepositional phrase → adverb: on my porch > [@Eternity Async Tutoring](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/eternity-async-tutoring/1932/507): > > - > - > - to stand on my porch is a prepositional phrase modifying want > - to is the preposition > - porch is the noun governed by to > - my is modifying porch > - stand on is a prepositional phrase modifying porch modifying? Idk. This one confuses me I think to stand is an infinitive. * * * > [@ActiveMind](#): > > 1. “John gets sweaty when he does his exercise routine.” > [@Eternity Async Tutoring](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/eternity-async-tutoring/1932/507): > > sweaty - object, gerund? > [@ActiveMind](#): > > object (participle): sweaty I search up whether gerunds have to end with ing: [etymology - Does a gerund always end with “-ing”? If so, why? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/31746/does-a-gerund-always-end-with-ing-if-so-why) So I think “sweaty” is a participle. But I can’t have a participle (adjective) be the object. I think our error is that we have “gets” as action verb, while it should be a linking verb. Thus sweaty would be the complement, and could be be participle (adjective) instead gerund (noun). * * * Two times I had an participle only listed as adjectives. > [@ActiveMind](#): > > adjective: broken > [@ActiveMind](#): > > adjective: exercise I can work on recognizing participle vs adjective. * * * > [@ActiveMind](#): > > 1. “I love to throw boomerangs to myself.” > [@ActiveMind](#): > > infinitive: to throw This should be the object of “love”. I usually did “(noun infinitive)” for cases like this, don’t know why I didn’t this time. * * * > [@ActiveMind](#): > > 1. “When a movie is boring, I stop watching.” Neither Fire nor @Eternity included “it” as an implied word. > [@ActiveMind](#): > > implied word (object): it (the movie) Eternity included it in his conclusion sentence though. > [@Eternity Async Tutoring](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/eternity-async-tutoring/1932/507): > > If any movie I am watching is boring, then I will stop watching it. * * * > [@ActiveMind](#): > > 1. “I like reading non-fiction books out of order.” > [@ActiveMind](#): > > adverb: out > prepositional phrase → adverb: of order I have “out” as an adverb while Fire and Eternity has “out of order” as a prepositional phrase. > [@Learning Grammar #2 - More Parts Trees and Sentence Analyses](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/learning-grammar-2-more-parts-trees-and-sentence-analyses/551/3): > > Prepositional phrase: ‘out of order’. The phrase functions as an adverb modifying ‘reading’. The preposition is ‘out of’ and it governs the noun ‘order’. > [@Eternity Async Tutoring](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/eternity-async-tutoring/1932/507): > > out of order is a prepositional phrase modifying reading I was unsure whether you could have two prepositions after each other like “out of” (as prepositions). I checked New Ox which said this sentence uses “out” as an adverb: > they lived eight miles out of town I tried making a tree for this sentence, but can’t make it make sense. - lived - they - out - of - town - miles - eight It doesn’t make sense that “miles” modifies the adverb “out”. It doesn’t make sense to have “miles” be the object of “lived” (“they lived eight miles”). * * * > [@ActiveMind](#): > > 1. “My broken speakers don’t work for making sound.” > [@ActiveMind](#): > > noun (noun infinitive): making “making” should be a gerund. * * * > [@ActiveMind](#): > > - “FYI, working at the CIA is cooler than the FBI.” > [@ActiveMind](#): > > ![](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e4f3ef56cb11a59913ddc32b7585f2b5c005ce18.png) > > 813×1004 36.7 KB “than working at the FBI” should modify “cooler”. Explanation: I thought of this when analyzing the sentence. I’m not sure if my version doesn’t also work. I guess I thought I didn’t like that “cooler” was modified by a prepositional phrase. But the prepositional phrase returns a adverb, so it would be fine. It is specifically “working at the FBI” that “working at the CIA” is “_cooler than_”, so the “than” should modify “cooler”. There are two prepositional phrases in the sentence, so with my tree it would be ambiguous if “working at the CIA” is cooler than “FYI” or “working at the FBI”. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/fi-grammar-article-part-2-5-am/1968)._