Many linguistics books breeze over this. Rarely is this relationship formally accounted for. One way to account for this formally is to refer to the propositional structure of the noun phrase. In ...

Narrator: Come on, you can expand that noun phrase. Fisherman: Fine! I'm trapped on this 'beautiful' lake. Narrator: There you go. Just one more noun phrase to expand. Ermm, your boat is stuck you ...

Narrator: Come on, you can expand that noun phrase. Fisherman: Fine! I'm trapped on this 'beautiful' lake. Narrator: There you go. Just one more noun phrase to expand. Ermm, your boat is stuck you ...

Language experts point out that certain sentence constructs using 'because' or 'why' can veer off into questionable ...

When the verb is in a non-finite form, such as an infinitive (to do) or a participle (doing), its subject is implied to be the subject of the clause, or sometimes the closest noun phrase.