Timeline for "Scarlet with rage, she swept past her employer and stormed up the stairs." — "Scarlet with rage" modifies "she", so adjectives can modify pronouns?
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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 |