Sentence structure: compound sentence
I suggest that the following sentence is not a compound sentence, but just a simple sentence with multiple infinitive phrases.
"The company strives to seize every opportunity to solve the manpower gap emerged in this city, a rapid changing knowledge-based society, and to enable it to thrive and grow in the keen competitive world."
I try to analyse it as follows, would anyone comment on my analysis to see if they are all right?
Any other suggestion to improve the expression of the idea?
(1) subject: the company
(2) main action verb: strives
(3) infinitive phrase "to seize every opportunity" modifies "strives"
(4) infinitive phrase "to solve the ..." modifies "opportunity"
(5) infinitive phrase "to enable it..." modifies "society"
I am really not sure about (5), anyone kindly help?
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It is definitely NOT a compound sentence no matter how you slice it. Also, it appears to be missing some words here: "to solve the manpower gap emerged in this city . . ." Do you mean the mapower gap THAT HAS emerged? Or do you mean the manpower gap THAT IS EMERGING? Once you get that straightened out, then it has a complex sentence structure. I would also put a comma after "keen," and I would add an "ly" to "rapid" to make it an adverb.
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answered Sep 26 '11 at 13:28
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it is not a compound sentence actually. its only a simple sentence with a number of phrase modifiers.
can not be a complex sentence unless there is a subordinate clause
you can add that has emerged and make it a complex sentence
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subject is correct. main verb correct. infinitive verbs correct. to enable it... does not modify society.it is another object to the ist infinitive phrase. – bernarda villarojo – Sep 29 '11 at 06:28
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