By Clauses, Adjuncts

Inchoateknowledge wrote:Hi CB, temporal clause = temporal adjunct? "I have the sinking feeling you get when you go into an exam you have not studied for." I can not make head nor tail of this sentence.Hi InchoateknowledgeI should think it is generally called a clause, not an adjunct, but you...

Hi CB, temporal clause = temporal adjunct? "I have the sinking feeling you get when you go into an exam you have not studied for." I can not make head nor tail of this sentence.

Mary was working at Pete's Cafe, where(?) (she was the only female).at Pete's Cafe is a prep phrase in locative adjunct (adverbial) position. The relative clause is an adverbial clause and an adverb modifier.

on Friday is a prep phrase and a temporal adjunct (adverbial)a prep phrase in adverb position.

Anonymous wrote:Hi guys, just a point I'd like to clarify which was brought up at a seminar I attended regarding the drafting of legal documents.From my understanding, I've always thought that when a "request" (used as a verb) is made for an object, the sentence should be in the form "request +...

Hi guys, just a point I'd like to clarify which was brought up at a seminar I attended regarding the drafting of legal documents.From my understanding, I've always thought that when a "request" (used as a verb) is made for an object, the sentence should be in the form "request + for + object",...

As far as I can determine, ablative absolute applies to Latin, not English: 'In Latin grammar, an adverbial phrase syntactically independent from the rest of the sentence and containing a noun or pronoun plus an adjunct, usually a participle or adjective, with both elements in the ablative...

Which is the correct answer regarding the syntactic analysis of the following sentence: Nothing could prevent him from climbing that dangerous peak. 1 Subject, Predicate, Direct Object, Prepositional Object, Direct Object 2 Subject, Predicate, Indirect Object, Prepositional Object, Direct...

adjunct : 1) a word or word group that qualifies or completes the meaning of another word or other words and is not itself a main structural element in its sentence.2) an adverb or adverbial (as heartily in "Most children eat heartily" or at noon in "We will leave at noon") attached to the verb...

Hello, Jimmychoo. The subordinate clause in your sentence sounds a bit odd for the theme of the sentence -at least to me. Anyway, if it is actually the theme, it is an instance of marked theme. In functional grammar, you speak of "unmarked theme" when the theme overlaps with the subject of the...