Questions tagged [adjuncts]
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Omitting “by” preposition and the resulted phrase
Consider the following examples:
I paid for it by using my credit card.
I was in contact with my friends by sending letters.
I learned how to dance by watching online videos
if I remove the ...
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Is 'the course' a complement or an adjunct in 'Stay the course'?
Stay the course is a fixed expression, but I'd like to know how to analyze the course. At first blush, it seems to be complement of the verb stay.
But then, you have a similar-looking example stay ...
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Is the relative clause always an adjunct/modifier of the antecedent?
The first two sentences mean the same thing, and so do the last two.
(1) She's obviously the person to finish the job.
(1') She's obviously the person who should finish the job.
(2) She was the first ...
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complement vs adjunct/modifier
In the following noun phrase, is the prepositional phrase from Lloyds complement or adjunct/modifier?
even all the preposterous salary from Lloyds that Bill gets
The Cambridge Grammar of The ...
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What's the difference between adjuncts and modifiers?
All types of adjuncts (my conclusion from wikipedia.org):
An adnominal adjunct is an adjunct modifying noun, i.e. it's dependent words in noun phrases (a good boy, the discussion before the game). ...
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Adjunct or Argument: “The bird flew over the lake”
In the title sentence, does "over the lake" serve as an adjunct or an optional argument? Here are the tests I tried using, though they weren't very enlightening beyond giving what kind of argument it ...
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Is 'to smoke' a complement or adjunct in this sentence?
I hope you are all well.
He stopped to smoke.
Is to smoke a complement of stop or is it an infinitive-of-purpose adjunct?
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Since and for, where can they be omitted?
I’m well aware of the difference between ‘since’ and ‘for’. However I have a question.
Imagine I say ‘I’ve been working on the essay since Saturday’ or ‘I’ve been working on the essay for two days’. ...
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appositive relative clause or adjunct of reason/cause?
In the syntactic analysis of the following sentence I doubt:
"They then took the matter to a three-person jury of appeal, specially convened to hear the protest"
The last part in bold (speacially ...
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Difference between adverb and adverbial adjunct
He arrived today.
He arrived.
Could we call adverb today as an adverbial adjunct because it still complete the meaning of sentence without it?
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What's the FUNCTIONAL difference between a supplement and an adjunct/modifier?
I'm trying to understand the difference between supplements and adjuncts/modifiers. In my search for enlightenment, I've come across a number of entries and posts, of which I think this one summarises ...
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Are these 'that'-clauses complements or adjuncts?
(1) It's a plan [that is being touted as the most modest proposal considered yet in Congress].
Here, the that-clause is a relative clause that modifies the antecedent 'plan', so I believe it's not a ...
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Grammatical name and function of “the end of the day” [closed]
What's the grammatical name of the end of the day here, and what is its grammatical function?
The sentence is this:
There was always a huge quantity of food left over at the end of the day.
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NPs - pre-/postmodifiers
Would you consider "both" in the following NPs rather as a predeterminer or a conjunction? If it's a predeterminer, it would determine both NPs, right?
The swimming pool is both a great place to ...
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Can I use a noun with a posessive determiner as adjunct?
For example: "Your level English" (Your level = adjunct)? Does it have the same meaning as "English of your level"?
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Disambiguating the noun phrase “a pretty egg box”
Does "a pretty egg box" always mean "a pretty box of eggs" rather than "a box of pretty eggs"?
More precisely, is "adjective adjunct-noun head-noun" always interpreted as "adjective (adjunct-noun ...
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Is “with Trevor” in “dined with Trevor” adjunct or complement?
We dined with Trevor the following Monday.
I'm doing a test to figure out whether the constituent "with Trevor" is an adjunct or complement to the verb "dine". It is called the "did so" test as some ...
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Argument vs. adjunct
I have a problem identifying certain structures of the sentence; sometimes it is hard to tell whether I'm dealing with an argument or adjunct.
Adjunct is said to be optional;, that is, its omission ...
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Are these two prepositional phrases disjuncts or something else?
Are these two prepositional phrases disjuncts or something else? I’ve looked through Biber and Huddleston, and the two examples don’t seem to fit into any of their categories of disjuncts. Thanks in ...
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That-clause (content clause) as an adjunct?
According to CGEL, that-clause can function as an adjunct.
The following sentence is an example from page 952 of CGEL.
He appealed to us to bring his case to the attention of the
authorities that ...
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Under what kind of conditions is a past time adjunct allowed for in experiential perfects?
In CGEL p.144 the author says about experiential perfects
This use of the present perfect allows for the inclusion, under restrictive conditions, of a past time adjunct:
iia) We've already ...
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Does a comma go there?
I'm having a hard time figuring out whether or not to use a comma in the type of situation shown in the examples below:
Jane was concerned that running by herself she might get mugged.
Jane ...
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Verb-Subject Order
Is it optional to front the verb in sentences like the one below when an adverbial precedes?
In the film, appear two more girls who think that Dallas is quite rude.
I have already checked the ...
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Why can an adjective be placed after “eat” as in “garlic can be eaten raw”?
Edit note:
This question with some good answers does not explain (or ask) why it is an adjective that's used as opposed to an adverb in this type of construction:
Is this an objective complement or ...
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Ending a sentence in the past tense with 'soon'
I was marking some exams for my Japanese high school students, and one of the test problems is:
Arrange the following words into a sentence:
walk / started / they / soon / to
Without fail, all ~300 ...
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What does an adjunct modify?
Does an adjunct always modify the noun or can it modify the verb, too?
For example:
He talked about me [in a hateful way].
I don't think that saying "in a hateful way" modifies him would be true. ...
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Why can I vary the position of the noun phrase only in certain sentences?
It is possible to say this:
It formed inside him an ambition to teach his students all the more.
I brought the "inside him" to the front of the noun phrase "an ambition to..." since the ...
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Commas with conjunctive adverbs [closed]
Which is correct?
Certainly that was a good thing.
or,
Certainly, that was a good thing.
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Fronted adjuncts
Is it correct to begin sentences with adjuncts? To which degree are the sentences below acceptable? Do you need a special context to license this word order, or can you start a text with these ...
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Is this Adverbial a complement or an adjunct?
According to Wiki, Adverbials are typically divided into four classes:
adverbial complements (i.e. obligatory adverbial) are adverbials that render a sentence ungrammatical and meaningless if removed....
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Complements and adjuncts
Paul Austen’s novel sold immediately to the author’s eager readers.
In the above sentence, which part is the complement and which is the adjunct? I am confused as to whether the adjunct should be ...
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Is this a predicative adjunct?
At breakfast on Thursday she bored them all stupid with flying tips she'd gotten out of a library book called Quidditch Through the Ages.
–– Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
As far as I ...
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What do you call the adjectives between transitive verbs and objects?
I carefully pried open her mouth. (The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s
Bag)
When intransitive verbs are followed by adjectives, they seem to call these adjectives as subjective complements or ...
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Can adjectives make adjuncts modifying verbs?
Her teeth gleamed white against the tanned skin of her face.
It seems ‘white’ is an adjunct modifying gleamed, while it’s not a complement for it’s not necessary to complete the meaning. But I’m ...
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complement vs adjunct [closed]
“Funny, isn’t it,” she said, “how the law can have a soft spot like
that? No, someone had seen her in the village at the time Robin went
missing, so she wasn’t really a suspect. It was decided ...
