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"English Question II: Revenge of Sentence Structure"

I'm still doing an English Language essay, still faffling it up, and still in need of your help.

In the sentence:

"In a bit of coal"

The elements are:

the preposition “in”,
the indefinite article “a”
the noun "bit"
The preposition "of"
the noun "coal"

Two questions:
Would 'coal' be the head noun, because the 'bit' is of the coal, of would "bit" be the head noun, because coal is just the description of what the bit is of?

Also, as there are two prepositions, does that mean that there are four sentence elements, or five?



Thanks for your help, and witful slander of my poor grasp of English.

Surely it's Play-D'oh

:D

Ah, whatever.
I think this kid kinda got p!ssed at me, seeing as when I first got there, trying to get him to say some stuff (recording it all for language acquisition stuff) I pulled a massive lump of the stuff off what later turned out to be a cake.

Silly me, didn't realise that a big lump of purple play-doh with some littler lumps on top made a cake.

I once entered a bit of Carl...can't think why I failed English.

I think it's Play-doh.

I'm glad I don't have to do any of this crap for English Language. I guess you're doing another board or something.

The other day we went and made playdoh cakes with some kids.
And not "playdoh cakes", no.

Is it even playdoh?
Or is it actually playdough, like I was gonna write?

English language sounds like the gayest thing ever.

Coal is the head noun becuase the sentence is about coal. The sentence isn't about "bit"

As others have correctly observed the correct answer is four.

Coal is the head noun simply because bit is too broad to accurately describe anything.

Did I mention that I have an A-level in English Literature?

Elements = 4

As for the noun, it's so much easier with indirect objects and stuff when working out nouns purpose, etc.

In short, no idea.

I would have said Coal and 4 Paradox.