He told everyone to stay at home when he left.

If an adjective takes place right after the intensive V- element as an obligatory sentence element, it functions as ...............in the sentence .

The Pawnee Indians regarded corn .............. sacred gift, and many of their religious ceremonies are centered around this crop.

The discovery of the halftone process in photography in 1881 made it ………….photographs in books and newspapers.

California, ……….more populous state than any of its Western neighbors, has greater representation in the House.

Microwaves are used for cooking, telecommunication ………. .

The last visitor to stay with us came from England.

If we always have our knowledge updated, technology aids a lot in any areas of activity.

We use ..................... to link clauses within a complex sentence.

Adjectives such as alive, asleep, afraid etc. can function ..................only.

Tense, aspect, voice, mood, person and .................. are grammatical categories of verb in English.

Normally, ................verb can serve as part of V- element only.

The main syntactic function of adjective phrase is ................

In terms of syntactic function, adjectives can be classified as central, attributive and .....................

A prepositional phrase consists of two parts: a preposition and a ...............

When the V- element requires no ..................... for the sentence to exist, it is intransitive.

Very often, prepositional phrases can be found functioning as ............. in English sentence.

The main function of an adverb in a sentence is...................

Adverbs such as rather, such, quite etc. can function as ...........of noun phrase.

The examination proved more difficult than we expected.