By Adjuncts

Randy_Tam wrote: I think your suggestion is inadequate, in a sense that you omit the syntactic relations among phrases (phrasal units having been correctly marked nonetheless). For example, what does the 'Adverbial of purpose' 'go with'? Is that, probably in the traditional terminology, a...

Hela wrote: Hi everyone, But what about looking at the sentence this way: the agents are trained to do what / for what ? = to kill. So shouldn't "to kill" be analysed separately? The agents = subject are trained = passive intransitive verb to kill = adverbial of purpose ? Am I...

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...

University programs are programs by a university for students who enroll there. Usually a university provides various sorts of programs: majoring programs for specific fields (Science, Engineering, Law, Liberal Arts, etc) as well as inter-faculty programs. Most programs will give you will a...

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...

hi what is the difference between adverb and adjunct? thanks,

What is "adjunct faculty" of a school department? What is a university programme? Can we say "field"? Is a programme connected to an academic degree? Thank you very much.

Hello Anon Thank you for the reply. Are you asking why I ask your thought? It's because you said in the post 145815 that you would read "alive" as an object complement. The reason I am saying that "alive" is not a usual object complement is that the sentence can make sense even if we can...

Hello, Hela. Your analysis of the first sentence (I gave my sister a cat for her birthday) is correct. I'd be happy with calling the prepositional phrase "for her birthday" an adjunct (adverbial) of time, though some more accurate label may exist. It's true that R. Quirk does not consider the...