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katelyn3 wrote:I can't figure out what "il est possible que" is or where it goes in the arbre
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would que les troupes....... be a complement of the main verbe then?
katelyn3 wrote:my thoughts were the same on this phrase...that "il est possible" is the main phrase.
possible I assume is an adjective?
would que les troupes....... be a complement of the main verbe then?
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[S [PP [P Selon] [NP [DET le] [N' [N contract] [S' [C que] [S [NP les soldats] [VP ont signé]]]]]] [NP il] [VP [V est] [AP [A possible] [S' [C que] [S [NP les troupes] [VP [VP [V reviennent]] [PP de leur mission]] [PP avant la fin du conflit.]]]]]]
just looks a bit different on my paper
Eginhard wrote:@linguoboy: Do you mean that this is a cleft sentence? For me this is just a simple copular construction with il as the subject, est the predicator and possible the subject complement.
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