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Jun 8 at 10:11 answer added Greybeard timeline score: -1
Jun 6 at 5:02 vote accept Loviii
Jun 3 at 14:50 comment added Mari-Lou A She looked pinkishly as she swept past her boss… Now that's what I call an adverb.
Jun 3 at 5:44 comment added BillJ @Loviii. Are you clear now that "scarlet with rage" is an adjective phrase functioning not as a manner adjunct but as a predicative adjunct?
Jun 2 at 1:05 answer added verbose timeline score: 2
Jun 1 at 22:13 history became hot network question
Jun 1 at 18:58 comment added PaulTanenbaum Exhausted, he flopped into the chair. There, it is the pronoun he that is being modified. Contrast that with He flopped exhaustedly into the chair.
Jun 1 at 18:16 comment added Edwin Ashworth Some would label this as an absolute construction, while others reserve that label for adjuncts of the kind 'Her face scarlet with rage, she swept ...'.
Jun 1 at 18:04 answer added Lambie timeline score: 0
Jun 1 at 17:29 answer added BillJ timeline score: 15
Jun 1 at 17:25 comment added BillJ "Scarlet with rage" is an adjective phrase, but it's a supplement, not a modifier. Its function is that of predicative adjunct: predicative because it relates to a predicand, i.e. "she" (she is the one who was scarlet with rage) and adjunct because it's an optional item in clause structure.
Jun 1 at 14:32 answer added fev timeline score: 1
Jun 1 at 14:30 comment added Stuart F Adjective phrases can modify pronouns, sometimes. But it's complicated. Look at the comments on "Influenza-crazed[,] he killed his family". (There's also a question on relative clauses modifying pronouns.)
Jun 1 at 14:13 history asked Loviii CC BY-SA 4.0