By Adjuncts

You don't have a complete sentence here. That makes it more difficult to understand what your question is. Complements and adjuncts can occur at several hierarchical levels within a sentence. CJ

The difference between adjuncts and complements is that you can take away the former without doing damage to the coherence of the sentence. I am in the bank. locative adjunct I am paying in money in the bank. complement "the new album immediately to the eager fans" Can you say a...

hello, can anyone indentify the complements and adjuncts here? 1) the new album immediately to the eager fans thanks

swimming in the lake is not an adjunct, let alone a locative one.

Hi GM "I like swimming- swimming is a gerund. Compare: I like movies. In this structure, swimming and movies are both nouns." (Even one word can be a phrase.) We do not disagree because I am of the opinion that 'giving' is a gerund, too. swimming in the lake” No it is not a participle...

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",...

Eating a hearty breakfast, we prepared for our long journey. Why is the underlined part of the sentence a participle phrase? 'eating' is a non-finite verb, not a gerund, but the whole phrase may be considered as a verbal noun (gerund phrase), not a verbal adjective (participle phrase)....

All that comes to mind offhand is as an adjectival adjunct (The man in the hat...) and as an adverbial (... ran across the boulevard).

Native speakers studiously avoid using the present perfect with adjuncts denoting past time because one of the main purposes of the present perfect is to highlight a past action, to make a past action seem important. That's why it is seldom done. But it is not a complete impossibility. It does...