Homework 1 error correction
What is the predicate? Technically, the predicate is “may.
“Be” is an infinitive, not a regular verb. I didn’t recognize that “may” was a verb. It’s a modal verb, a.k.a an auxiliary verb. “Easy” is still the complement of “be”, but “learning” should be the subject of “may.”
“if you are learning”? Is that a gerund? No, it’s part of the verb.
I’m not sure. “Learning” seems to be describing a state. “From a good teacher” modifies that state, the state of learning from a good teacher. So this clause and the main clause would say: learning may be easy when you are in the state of learning from a good teacher. So I would still say that “learning” is a participle here.
What part of speech is “work”? It’s a noun.
I thought complements for “be” had to be adjectives, later I found out they could be nouns as well. I agree that “work” is a noun here, not a noun infinitive either.
What is the first main clause? Not “It is not enough,” because “It” is not part of the grammar of this sentence. “It” is one of those empty filler words that starts you off, which we call expletives.
So I didn’t really know how to tree expletives. So what Peikoff want is actually close to what I had originally. Originally I thought there was both an object and a complement, which would be two complements, doesn’t make sense. Now “that” is the subject and there is no object, only a complement.
Here is what that part looks like now:
The expletive “it” may also just be left out.
predicate, “be,”
this time it seems like “be” could be normal verb. I think it’s correct but I don’t know why, maybe just old language, it feels a bit archaic.
It doesn’t say, “She thought that this was the Taggart Terminal.” If it read that way, then “She thought” would be the main clause. But in this case, “she thought” actually functions as an aside, a parenthesis; it simply indicates that this is going on in her mind, but it’s not part of the structure of the grammar.
If there isn’t an implied “that” then “she thought” doesn’t fit into the tree, which is what Peikoff says when he says “it’s not part of the structure of the grammar.”
With implies “that” is awkward:
This was the Taggart Terminal, she thought that, this room, not the giant concourse in New York -
Usually the implied “that” sounds natural, so in this case maybe it’s better to just put the “she thought” to the side.
“Drawing her forward” is simply a participial phrase modifying “lines.”
OK. Sounds a bit weird, but it works.
What type of clause is “where the two straight lines of rail met and vanished”? It’s the point where all this happens; it’s an adjective clause, that’s all.
According to New Ox “where” can be a relative adverb, not a relative pronoun. So I think it’s an adverbial clause which modifies an appositive. Not really important though. It modifies the same thing
Project notes
Took 52 minutes.
After taking notes on cycling between CF and its prerequisites I have changed my mind on the value of this project now. I know I’ll definitely not do lecture 7 and 8 of Peikoffs course. I might end it sooner than that. I’ll decide tomorrow.