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by vishal.pathak » Thu Dec 01, 2011 3:57 am
Please help me find the subject verb and object in the following sentence

The fight over the speed limit, a measure regarded by opponents as ineffective and meddlesome and by supporters as a conserver of life and energy, continues in our legislatures and on our freeways.

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by avik.ch » Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:17 am
The fight ( subject ) over the speed limit, a measure regarded by opponents as ineffective and meddlesome and by supporters as a conserver of life and energy ( modifies the speed limit), continues (action verb ) in our legislatures and on our freeways(object).

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by vishal.pathak » Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:40 am
avik.ch wrote:The fight ( subject ) over the speed limit, a measure regarded by opponents as ineffective and meddlesome and by supporters as a conserver of life and energy ( modifies the speed limit), continues (action verb ) in our legislatures and on our freeways(object).

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But avik, i believe there are more than 1 clauses in this sentence and there should be more than 1 subjects,objects and verbs in this sentence
One of the subordinate clauses is perhaps: a measure regarded by opponents as ineffective and meddlesome
I think, In this subordinate clause: Subject = a measure
Object = opponents
Verb = regarded
ineffective and meddlesome - is a modifier of the object. I wonder what can "ineffective and meddlesome" be considered

Again I have heard that verb-ed and verb-ing should have helping verb with them to be considered predicate verbs. This clause certainly lacks the helping verb

Can somebody please break this sentence for me. I have gone through a number of websites where there is considerable discussion on subject-verb-object but the examples on those websites are generally very simple. It is easy to understand this concept but difficult to implement it.

Somebody, anybody .. please help me

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by avik.ch » Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:54 am
there is not subordinate clause here, the construction of this sentence is :

the fight over the speed limit, modifier...............(modifies speed limit), action verb + object.

I don't think that "a measure regarded by opponents as ineffective and meddlesome and by supporters as a conserver of life and energy " is acting as a subordinate clause here, because there is no subordinator here. Since this is the OA ( I remember this SC ), it is a modifier or else this would be a run on sentence ( you cannot join two clause with a comma).
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by tuanquang269 » Thu Dec 01, 2011 8:17 pm
vishal.pathak wrote:Please help me find the subject verb and object in the following sentence

The fight over the speed limit (SUBJECT), a measure regarded by opponents as ineffective and meddlesome and by supporters as a conserver of life and energy (APPOSITIVE MODIFIER), continues (VERB) in our legislatures and on our freeways (OBJECT)

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