{"id":170316,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/what-is-the-simple-predicate-in-this-sentence-the-cruiser-slicing-through-the-water-created-great-waves-2"},"modified":"2017-08-18T05:51:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T05:51:15","slug":"what-is-the-simple-predicate-in-this-sentence-the-cruiser-slicing-through-the-water-created-great-waves-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/what-is-the-simple-predicate-in-this-sentence-the-cruiser-slicing-through-the-water-created-great-waves-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the simple predicate in this sentence? The cruiser, slicing through the water, created great waves."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far I understand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;slicing through the water&#8221; it is an absolute phrase that modifies not a single word &#8220;Cruiser&#8221; like appositive phrase usually does.<\/p>\n<p>The cruiser created great waves,slicing through the water. Or we can write: Slicing through the water, the cruiser created great waves. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Slicing through the water&#8221; this absolute phrase modifies &#8212;The cruiser created great waves as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>After subject except separated by comma of appositive or absolute phrase, all are predicate in a sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far I understand. &#8220;slicing through the water&#8221; it is an absolute phrase that modifies not a single word &#8220;Cruiser&#8221; like appositive phrase usually does. The cruiser created great waves,slicing through the water. Or we can write: Slicing through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/what-is-the-simple-predicate-in-this-sentence-the-cruiser-slicing-through-the-water-created-great-waves-2\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}