One Word Got Me In Trouble.

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With Islam's Allah emerging as a contender here in America, the 'chickens are coming home to roost' in the confusion being caused by carelessness of translators in failing to translate what is actually written in the ancient texts concerning the name of the god, Jehovah, being America's predominate god for so long.

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There is a predicate verb in this sentence; "coming".However, the sentence IS very hard to read.I would edit it thusly:With Islam's Allah emerging as a contender here in America, the 'chickens are coming home to roost'.Confusion has been caused by careless translations of the ancient texts concerning the name of the god, Jehovah, America's predominate god for so long.[This message has been edited by schrafinator, 09-17-2003]

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There is a predicate verb in this sentence; "coming".

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However, the sentence IS very hard to read.

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I would edit it thusly:

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Thanks, Schraf, for the the English refresher. That's the phrase we needed, i.e. predicate verb, and yes there's one of them. Wouldn't I be correct in saying most of the others I mentioned are verbs, but not predicate verbs?Your reconstruction suggestion is well taken and would definitely have been less confusing. [This message has been edited by buzsaw, 09-17-2003]

Too many verbs you say?I'm no expert at English either but when a sentence contains so many different subjects and verbs or quasi verbs that it is difficult to understand what the point of the sentence or sentences is or are when there is apparently no single or direct object to the sentence or sentences if that is what it is or they are and likewise confusing that my brain has to hold its breath in order to get from beginning to the end so to grasp what may or may not be the point of such outpouring of verbosity.That said. ... Would you care to comment upon the substance of that post?db