By Adjuncts

5) Movement of constituents. In the following sonnet by William Shakespeare, certain constituents have been moved from an underlying post-verbal position to a pre-verbal position. Identify them. Are they arguments or adjuncts? Are these movements grammatical in modern English? ...

1) Identify arguments and adjuncts in the following sentences. Discuss problematic examples. Short explanation to my answers: The important verb is written in bold letters, the selected arguments are underlined. An adjunct is written in italics. Theta roles are...

Thank you very much, Jim and Yankee. CalifJim wrote:If I won't shoot at any soldier, I won't kill any soldiers.Just my point. In both cases I would use the plural because both are complements, not adjuncts. That's why I said complement rather than object. shoot at is a prepositional verb...

You may wish to add some ‘adjunct’ to each of your sentences to clarify the use of the passive indefinite and the passive perfect: He remembers having been bitten by a dog (since he was young). As the word implies, adjuncts are not necessary. Both statements are fine.

If I won't shoot at any soldier, I won't kill any soldiers.Just my point. In both cases I would use the plural because both are complements, not adjuncts. That's why I said complement rather than object. shoot at is a prepositional verb with complement soldier. (I think you meant If I...

it's not true that we should always use any + plural noun in negative senteces... maybe we should use any + plural only when any + plural noun is the object of the verb? I'm pretty confused now...Join the (confused) club! I think you're on the right track. I have not done the research on it...

Fantasy wrote: I (subject) + have not seen (verb) + that many people (object) crowded (past participle) at the entrance. Perhaps, you are not familiar with the above construction. and "at the entrance" = locative adjunct Read my previous post carefully again.

Hela wrote: Thanks to all of you. and have a nice week. Hello Once more 1) A day will come when you no longer remember my face. when you will no longer remember my face = temporal adjunct -- describes the action, not the noun (day), not an adjectival clause (not relative...

I ran for a mile Is for a mile the Direct object or an adjunct in the sentence? IMO, it is a temporal adjunct expressing duration I ran a block. Is a block the Direct Object? Yes