Alicesara 330 week4 by Alicesara Lodsukho

week4 - what have I learned in this class.

alicesarameow — 2025-09-07 16:13:13 UTC

Week4 - I learned about how to build a sentences. Help me understanding the structure on the deep level.

a noun phrase with pre-noun modifiers

alicesarameow — 2025-09-07 16:15:54 UTC

I’m in the ICU with my dying mother and the thing that I’m sure will get her to wake up is the fact that in the days since Mom’s been hospitalized, my fear and sadness have morphed into the perfect anorexia-motivation cocktail and, finally, I have achieved Mom’s current goal weight for me.

Analysis: "my" give more information about the noun.

a noun phrase with post-noun modifiers

alicesarameow — 2025-09-07 16:22:16 UTC

they’ve both overfilled their bowls with milk and cereal to the point that the milk sloshes over the sides of the bowls and lands on the gray carpet.

Analysis: "with milk and cereal" give extra information after the noun.

an adjective phrase

alicesarameow — 2025-09-07 16:26:50 UTC

Have you heard of Mad TV? It’s supposedly very funny. The more underground SNL.

Analysis: "very funny" is adverb+adjective modifies Mad TV.

an adverbial phrase

alicesarameow — 2025-09-07 16:33:23 UTC

She goes on to say how she can’t believe I wouldn’t stop singing “Jingle Bells” at the top of my lungs when the mood was clearly so sad.

Analysis: "at the top of my lungs" modifies singing.

a prepositional phrase functioning as an adjective

alicesarameow — 2025-09-07 16:35:22 UTC

There’s the flash of sitting on the bumpy blue carpet in a corner room in our church building.

Analysis: "on the bumpy blue carpet in a corner room in our church building" modifies the flash of sitting.

a prepositional phrase functioning as an adverb

alicesarameow — 2025-09-07 16:36:54 UTC

She even goes so far as to MC a weekly rewatch of a home video she made shortly after learning of her diagnosis.

Analysis: "after learning of her diagnosis" modifying a verb (When did she rewatch?)