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-Could someone provide feedback on if I answered correctly? I am struggling with these topics. I'm able to understand examples in my textbook, but this Homework is alot more technical.

1.Were I a polemicist, I might say what I was after is a pragmatic pedagogy, one grounded in "the arts of complicity, duplicity, and compromise," the very same arts that are deployed, with such enervating effect, by the host of social, bureaucratic and corporate institutions that govern all our lives.

 

 

-relative clause

 

prepositional phrase

 

non-restrictive relative clause

 

reduced relative clause

2.Between the poles of these two representations of schooling as either radically liberating and empowering or ceaselessly oppressive and instrumentalist, one finds a vast, unexplored territory--the fraught, compromised world where all of our classes are actually convened.

 

 

-adjective

 

verb

 

adverb

 

noun

3. Were I a polemicist, I might say what I was after is a pragmatic pedagogy, one grounded in "the arts of complicity, duplicity, and compromise," the very same arts that are deployed, with such enervating effect, by the host of social, bureaucratic and corporate institutions that govern all our lives.

 

-dependent clause

 

noun phrase

 

prepositional phrase

 

verb phrase

4.Were I a polemicist, I might say what I was after is a pragmatic pedagogy, one grounded in "the arts of complicity, duplicity, and compromise," the very same arts that are deployed, with such enervating effect, by the host of social, bureaucratic and corporate institutions that govern all our lives.

 

 

-dependent clause

 

verb phrase

 

independent clause

 

noun phrase

5.And, of course, as teachers we too are subject to the demands of the classroom drama, which requires that we meet the ambient expectations about what it means to teach and to be an authority on one's subject. Thus, we are quick to cover our own ignorance, talk over our own confusion, hide our own doubts about the rewards of learning because, if we act otherwise, we would risk rending education's public transcript by exposing the highly credentialed person at the front of the room as nothing more than a fraud.

 

noun phrase

 

-prepositional phrase

 

verb phrase

 

dependent clause

6.And, of course, as teachers we too are subject to the demands of the classroom drama, which requires that we meet the ambient expectations about what it means to teach and to be an authority on one's subject. Thus, we are quick to cover our own ignorance, talk over our own confusion, hide our own doubts about the rewards of learning because, if we act otherwise, we would risk rending education's public transcript by exposing the highly credentialed person at the front of the room as nothing more than a fraud.

 

verb phrase

 

independent clause

 

dependent clause

 

action verb

7.And, of course, as teachers we too are subject to the demands of the classroom drama, which requires that we meet the ambient expectations about what it means to teach and to be an authority on one's subject. Thus, we are quick to cover our own ignorance, talk over our own confusion, hide our own doubts about the rewards of learning because, if we act otherwise, we would risk rending education's public transcript by exposing the highly credentialed person at the front of the room as nothing more than a fraud.

 

independent clause

 

dependent clause

 

noun phrase

 

verb phrase

8.And, of course, as teachers we too are subject to the demands of the classroom drama, which requires that we meet the ambient expectations about what it means to teach and to be an authority on one's subject. Thus, we are quick to cover our own ignorance, talk over our own confusion, hide our own doubts about the rewards of learning because, if we act otherwise, we would risk rending education's public transcript by exposing the highly credentialed person at the front of the room as nothing more than a fraud.

 

 

restrictive relative clause

 

verb phrase

 

noun phrase

 

prepositional phrase

9.Between the poles of these two representations of schooling as either radically liberating and empowering or ceaselessly oppressive and instrumentalist, one finds a vast, unexplored territory--the fraught, compromised world where all of our classes are actually convened.

 

 

noun phrase

 

independent clause

 

dependent clause

 

prepositional phrase

10.Between the poles of these two representations of schooling as either radically liberating and empowering or ceaselessly oppressive and instrumentalist, one finds a vast, unexplored territory--the fraught, compromised world where all of our classes are actually convened.

 

noun phrase

 

adjectival phrase

 

prepositional phrase

 

verb phrase

11.Were I a polemicist, I might say what I was after is a pragmatic pedagogy, one grounded in "the arts of complicity, duplicity, and compromise," the very same arts that are deployed, with such enervating effect, by the host of social, bureaucratic and corporate institutions that govern all our lives.

 

 

independent clause

 

verb phrase

 

noun phrase

 

auxiliary verb

12.And, of course, as teachers we too are subject to the demands of the classroom drama, which requires that we meet the ambient expectations about what it means to teach and to be an authority on one's subject. Thus, we are quick to cover our own ignorance, talk over our own confusion, hide our own doubts about the rewards of learning because, if we act otherwise, we would risk rending education's public transcript by exposing the highly credentialed person at the front of the room as nothing more than a fraud.

 

 

prepositional phrase

 

verb phrase

 

action verb

 

noun phrase

13.Between the poles of these two representations of schooling as either radically liberating and empowering or ceaselessly oppressive and instrumentalist, one finds a vast, unexplored territory--the fraught, compromised world where all of our classes are actually convened.

 

 

prepositional phrase

 

noun phrase

 

adverbial phrase

 

verb phrase

14.And, of course, as teachers we too are subject to the demands of the classroom drama, which requires that we meet the ambient expectations about what it means to teach and to be an authority on one's subject. Thus, we are quick to cover our own ignorance, talk over our own confusion, hide our own doubts about the rewards of learning because, if we act otherwise, we would risk rending education's public transcript by exposing the highly credentialed person at the front of the room as nothing more than a fraud.

 

 

noun phrase

 

determiner

 

adjectival phrase

 

noun


15.And, of course, as teachers we too are subject to the demands of the classroom drama, which requires that we meet the ambient expectations about what it means to teach and to be an authority on one's subject. Thus, we are quick to cover our own ignorance, talk over our own confusion, hide our own doubts about the rewards of learning because, if we act otherwise, we would risk rending education's public transcript by exposing the highly credentialed person at the front of the room as nothing more than a fraud.

 

 

noun phrase

 

restrictive relative clause

 

dependent clause

 

non-restrictive relative clause

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If there was a grammar question in there I missed it.

 

Guess it was hidden among all that convoluted and unecessary verbal pedantry.

 

LOL.

 

The best writers have always been the ones with the leanest and most pithy style. The ones who abhorred purple prose and felt no need to flaunt their vocabulary.

 

Think Kurt Vonnegut. Hemingway. Twain.

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The best writers have always been the ones with the leanest and most pithy style. The ones who abhorred purple prose and felt no need to flaunt their vocabulary.

 

Think Kurt Vonnegut. Hemingway. Twain.

Succinct.

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Glancing over the OP, I get the idea that he has some expression in bold, which is then one of the grammatical options below it. One is in bold, which I guess is his choice.

 

If that is the case, he is wrong several times because he can't distinguish between a phrase and a clause. The difference is extremely simple - a clause contains a finite verb, a phrase does not. If he's still around, he should re-visit that and try again. The snag is of course to decide whether a verb is finite or non-finite........

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Thank you DrKrettin, I took your advice and revised some of the questions. Did I accuractely follow what you asked to look for? Also, is there anything else that needs revision?

1.Were I a polemicist, I might say what I was after is a pragmatic pedagogy, one grounded in "the arts of complicity, duplicity, and compromise," the very same arts that are deployed, with such enervating effect, by the host of social, bureaucratic and corporate institutions that govern all our lives.

-relative clause

prepositional phrase

non-restrictive relative clause

reduced relative clause

2.Between the poles of these two representations of schooling as either radically liberating and empowering or ceaselessly oppressive and instrumentalist, one finds a vast, unexplored territory--the fraught, compromised world where all of our classes are actually convened.

-adjective

verb

adverb

noun

3. Were I a polemicist, I might say what I was after is a pragmatic pedagogy, one grounded in "the arts of complicity, duplicity, and compromise," the very same arts that are deployed, with such enervating effect, by the host of social, bureaucratic and corporate institutions that govern all our lives.

-dependent clause

noun phrase

prepositional phrase

verb phrase

4.Were I a polemicist, I might say what I was after is a pragmatic pedagogy, one grounded in "the arts of complicity, duplicity, and compromise," the very same arts that are deployed, with such enervating effect, by the host of social, bureaucratic and corporate institutions that govern all our lives.

-dependent clause

verb phrase

independent clause

noun phrase

5.And, of course, as teachers we too are subject to the demands of the classroom drama, which requires that we meet the ambient expectations about what it means to teach and to be an authority on one's subject. Thus, we are quick to cover our own ignorance, talk over our own confusion, hide our own doubts about the rewards of learning because, if we act otherwise, we would risk rending education's public transcript by exposing the highly credentialed person at the front of the room as nothing more than a fraud.

noun phrase

prepositional phrase

verb phrase

dependent clause

6.And, of course, as teachers we too are subject to the demands of the classroom drama, which requires that we meet the ambient expectations about what it means to teach and to be an authority on one's subject. Thus, we are quick to cover our own ignorance, talk over our own confusion, hide our own doubts about the rewards of learning because, if we act otherwise, we would risk rending education's public transcript by exposing the highly credentialed person at the front of the room as nothing more than a fraud.

verb phrase

independent clause

dependent clause

action verb

7.And, of course, as teachers we too are subject to the demands of the classroom drama, which requires that we meet the ambient expectations about what it means to teach and to be an authority on one's subject. Thus, we are quick to cover our own ignorance, talk over our own confusion, hide our own doubts about the rewards of learning because, if we act otherwise, we would risk rending education's public transcript by exposing the highly credentialed person at the front of the room as nothing more than a fraud.

independent clause

dependent clause

noun phrase

verb phrase

8.And, of course, as teachers we too are subject to the demands of the classroom drama, which requires that we meet the ambient expectations about what it means to teach and to be an authority on one's subject. Thus, we are quick to cover our own ignorance, talk over our own confusion, hide our own doubts about the rewards of learning because, if we act otherwise, we would risk rending education's public transcript by exposing the highly credentialed person at the front of the room as nothing more than a fraud.

restrictive relative clause

verb phrase

noun phrase

prepositional phrase

9.Between the poles of these two representations of schooling as either radically liberating and empowering or ceaselessly oppressive and instrumentalist, one finds a vast, unexplored territory--the fraught, compromised world where all of our classes are actually convened.

noun phrase

independent clause

dependent clause

prepositional phrase

10.Between the poles of these two representations of schooling as either radically liberating and empowering or ceaselessly oppressive and instrumentalist, one finds a vast, unexplored territory--the fraught, compromised world where all of our classes are actually convened.

noun phrase

adjectival phrase

prepositional phrase

verb phrase

11.Were I a polemicist, I might say what I was after is a pragmatic pedagogy, one grounded in "the arts of complicity, duplicity, and compromise," the very same arts that are deployed, with such enervating effect, by the host of social, bureaucratic and corporate institutions that govern all our lives.

independent clause

verb phrase

noun phrase

auxiliary verb

12.And, of course, as teachers we too are subject to the demands of the classroom drama, which requires that we meet the ambient expectations about what it means to teach and to be an authority on one's subject. Thus, we are quick to cover our own ignorance, talk over our own confusion, hide our own doubts about the rewards of learning because, if we act otherwise, we would risk rending education's public transcript by exposing the highly credentialed person at the front of the room as nothing more than a fraud.

prepositional phrase

verb phrase

action verb

noun phrase

13.


And, of course, as teachers we too are subject to the demands of the classroom drama, which requires that we meet the ambient expectations about what it means to teach and to be an authority on one's subject. Thus, we are quick to cover our own ignorance, talk over our own confusion, hide our own doubts about the rewards of learning because, if we act otherwise, we would risk rending education's public transcript by exposing the highly credentialed person at the front of the room as nothing more than a fraud.

 

independent clause

 

verb phrase

 

dependent clause

 

noun phrase

14.Between the poles of these two representations of schooling as either radically liberating and empowering or ceaselessly oppressive and instrumentalist, one finds a vast, unexplored territory--the fraught, compromised world where all of our classes are actually convened.

prepositional phrase

noun phrase

adverbial phrase

verb phrase

15.And, of course, as teachers we too are subject to the demands of the classroom drama, which requires that we meet the ambient expectations about what it means to teach and to be an authority on one's subject. Thus, we are quick to cover our own ignorance, talk over our own confusion, hide our own doubts about the rewards of learning because, if we act otherwise, we would risk rending education's public transcript by exposing the highly credentialed person at the front of the room as nothing more than a fraud.

noun phrase

determiner

adjectival phrase

noun


16.And, of course, as teachers we too are subject to the demands of the classroom drama, which requires that we meet the ambient expectations about what it means to teach and to be an authority on one's subject. Thus, we are quick to cover our own ignorance, talk over our own confusion, hide our own doubts about the rewards of learning because, if we act otherwise, we would risk rending education's public transcript by exposing the highly credentialed person at the front of the room as nothing more than a fraud.

noun phrase

restrictive relative clause

dependent clause

non-restrictive relative clause

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