Ferdis, By now, it's obvious that we have a different approach toward adverbial. I would summarize our viewpoints like this: Mary's new adress is beautiful. Beautiful- is adjectival. I saw Mary . According to you, the participle

However, particple phrase is adverbial, No, not always, if ever. That 'if ever' is what this whole discussion is about. In the common case they are adjectival in nature and are required to modify a noun. Otherwise they turn into dangling

Hi, I think I said this before and I still hold this view. I heard Mary . If one must take this the bracketed phrase as adjectival in nature, he certainly can as it does describe "what" she was doing. However, particple phrase is

Hi GG, I must disagree with the suggestion that "and he wiped" is the same as the use of "wiping." I can appreciate why you made this statement. I must agree with you that "wiping" and "he wiped" are

They are different kinds of words. They are both sometimes short. Adverb : the word class that qualifies adjectives, verbs or clauses. Preposition : a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional

"whomever" is the correct, since you need an object pronoun after a preposition. It doesn't work that way. It doesn't depend on the function of whoever/whomever in the main clause. It depends on the function of whoever/whomever

Hello guys, i am first time here, although I have studied english syntax for a while. Hope you will be much of help. I have been racking my brain over the following riddle. Can noun clauses be modifiers? I have been under impression that noun

I was boiling a pot full of spaghetti when Emma called me loudly. nouns: I pronoun subject of main clause pot direct object of main verb spaghetti object of preposition "of" phrase modifying "full" Emma proper noun subject of

But I can't quite understand it. My fault! I should have paid more attention to the title you had given to your post: Narrow lane down. Lane and down don't belong together at all. "There was a narrow lane down which only one person

From my point of view it is a "cLassic" sample of the present progressive passive ... if an active sentence sounds as : " Someone is dispLaying tires outside",, then.. the passive wiLL be: "Tires are being displayed