"John" is the subject of the sentence. "Ate a slice" and "drank a bottle" are simplified versions of the two verbal phrases of the compound predicate (the part of the sentence that describes what ...

Pamela Munro, Subject Copying, Auxiliarization, and Predicate Raising: The Mojave Evidence, International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Apr., 1976 ...

Last week, we started discussing the differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence. We defined a phrase as a group of words without a subject and a predicate, though standing together to ...