However, there is a coordination of verb phrases which have her as the unexpressed subject of these clauses, not the subject of the sentence. The noun phrase her craving is not a subject. Craving is the head of the noun phrase: " her craving to be in Frisco's arms and forget this dreary existence ". This noun phrase is the complement of than. EDIT : Some readers might wonder whether craving is a verb here.
In my opinion it isn't. I explain why in a different post below because the explanation's quite long! Some people might argue that craving is a verb here. There are some good reasons to think that maybe craving should be a verb. It isn't, in my opinion, in the normal reading of the sentence. We can do some tests to show this. There is a noun craving. If this is the noun craving we should expect it to be modifiable by an adjective:. Now if craving was a verb in the sentence above, it would be modified by an adverb urgently.
Now, that sentence would work with the verb form too:. The clue to the status of craving is in the grammar. The verb crave is very difficult to use without an object:. We normally expect these verbs to have an object. Plural in Latin does not necessarily mean plural in English. For example: This data is corrupted. These data are corrupted.
Marking this as wrong is harsh. No, it isn't. I've changed my mind. More than one is singular. For example: More than one check is a re-check.
None can be singular or plural. For example: None of us is a volunteer. None of the souffles are presentable. With all , any , most , and some and expressions like half of , the majority of , and a percentage of , the noun that follows determines the verb. For example: Some of the cheese is missing. Both the players and coaches were satisfied with the game. Everybody who witnessed the shooting and everybody in the room was interviewed. Red, white, and blue are the colors of the American flag.
Both Argentina and Brazil are in South America. Both John and George work at the steakhouse on Carver Street. Let's take a look: Neither the president nor her assistant has replied to the accusation.
Mom or Sharon will bring the dessert. Either you or your friend needs to tell me what happened. Neither the toy by the door nor the shoes in the living room need to be put away. The sofa or the chair will have to be moved to the den. Neither yellow nor red matches that comforter. Baked goods or fried foods are not healthy for you. Either all of us or none of us go to the party.
Neither the basement nor the bedroom has been vacuumed. Either fish or chicken is served at the cafeteria daily. Hot soup or crackers will help you feel better. The florist or I deliver flowers to the gallery each day.
Abby or Lionel will attend the meeting and report back. Either the monkeys or the giraffes are getting a new habitat at the zoo. The simple subject of the following sentence is issue :. Sometimes, though, a simple subject can be more than one word, even an entire clause. For purposes of sentence analysis, the do-er or the initiator of action in a sentence is referred to as the agent of the sentence. In an active sentence, the subject is the agent:.
The normal English order of subject-verb-completer is disturbed only occasionally but under several circumstances. The most important of these are as follows subjects in blue :.
There are other uses of inversion , but most of those result in a strained or literary effect.
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