文法分析: 主谓宾, 并列句, 复杂句
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(prepared by: alexcwlin; edited by: Adam Lam)

Question:
可以帮我分析一下句子中的主谓宾吗?
“The pregnant cashier’s absence from the checkout in the chain store aroused the manager’ s concern, and he substituted one for her in case the messy situation became worse.”

alexcwlin comments:
The sentence is a Compound-Complex Sentence (并列复杂句)with 2 Independent Clauses and 1 Dependent Clause.

Each of the 2 Independent Clauses has Subject + Verb + Object, and the Subordinating Clause has a Subject + Linking Verb + Subject Complement.

Analysis:

A.    Independent Clause #1:
“The pregnant cashier’s absence from the checkout in the chain store aroused the manager’ s concern”

Subject: “The pregnant cashier’s absence from the checkout in the chain store”
(Noun Phrase, made up of a Noun Phrase and 2 modifiers:

a.      “The pregnant cashier’s absence”: Noun Phrase;

b.     “from the checkout”: Prepositional Adjectival Phrase modifying the Noun “absence” in describing the nature of the “absence”;

c.      “in the chain store”: Prepositional Adjectival Phrase modifying the Noun “checkout” in describing where the "checkout” is.

Verb: “aroused” (Transitive Verb)

Object: “the manager’ s concern” (Noun Phrase, Object of the Transitive Verb “aroused”.

B.    Conjunction: “and” (joining the 2 Independent Clauses)

C.    Independent Clause #2:
“he substituted one for her in case the messy situation became worse.” is made up of the Main Clause, and the Subordinating Clause

1.     Main Clause:
“he substituted one for her”

Subject: “he” (Noun);

Verb: “substituted” (Transitive Verb)

Object: “one for her” (Noun Phrase, being Object of the Transitive Verb “substituted”, which is made up of

a.     “one”: Noun, and

b.     “for her”: Prepositional Adjectival Phrase modifying the Noun “one” in telling whom the “one” is for.

2.     Subordinating Clause:
“in case the messy situation became worse”

Subordinating Conjunction: “in case”, joining the Main Clause to the Subordinating Clause;

Subject: “the messy situation” (Noun Phrase);

Verb: “became” (Linking Verb);

Subject Complement: “worse” (Adjective Subject Complement in describing the state of the Subject).