Oops! Looks like I forgot to answer (or dodged) the question. "Opportunities"
is the subject of the sentence. "There seems to be" is a prepositional phrase,
and "employment" is an adjective modifying "opportunitites."
I could be wrong. I haven't diagrammed a sentence in x+y years. I don't think
I even remember what a gerund is anymore. I had a couple of gerbils once,
though, but that's not the same.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
> Sigh! I did the unpardonable: I went back and revised part of a sentence
> without reading it after I revised it. Originally, it was "There seems to be
> employment opportunity for..." and then I changed it to what you see without
> renegotiating the necessary agreement between subject and verb.
>
> I'm a passable, fair to middlin' writer, but I'm a really miserable
> proofreader.
> As the old Southern commedian Brother Dave Gardner used to say, "I may not be
> grammatical, but, by God, I'm communicable."
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Walt, a question for you. You wrote "There seems to be employment
> > opportunities" - what is the subject of the verb, and is it (the subject)
> > singular or plural?
> >
> > Truly, it's a question, despite that it may appear to be baited (it isn't).
> >
> > --
> > Piers
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> > Of Walt Wayman
> > Sent: 07 June 2005 20:04
> > To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [OM] Re: An English apology !
> >
> > Oh, I understand. At least a couple of times a day I have to resist the
> > urge to e-mail the Republican Network (a.k.a Fox) or CNN about some of the
> > atrocious mistakes in their annoying "crawlers" across the bottom of the
> > screen. There seems to be employment opportunities for high-school dropouts
> > at both networks. Of course, the folks who watch Fox probably don't notice.
> >
> > See the smiley! :-) "Smiley" rhymes with "O'Reilly." Oh, really? Factor
> > that in.
> >
> > Walt
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