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I saw him washing his car. (While I was) Washing his car , I saw him. washing his car = sentence adjunct -- I saw his (not him) washing his car . = MC (matrix clause) his washing his car = SC (sub) = OD I saw his (not him) washing his car .
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Subject, object, and adjunct are related to function. On the other hand, NP is a formal quality of words. We should not confuse the two distinct notions. -- I saw him washing his car this morning. him = OD (while he was) washing his car this
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hi there, actually the above statement is giving the answer of where question ..(when in a business meeting) so it apparently becomes clear that it is adjunct adverbial... and let me tell you one thing adverbial is a group of words that do the
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Prepositional phrases as adverbs are very common. Here are some:
She met me in the kitchen . Adverb of place
I saw her in the morning . Adverb of time
I left without my trousers . Adverb of manner
Thank you very much for the
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I'm sorry, but how would that look? In my class we don't need to say that the prepositional phrase is modifying anything, because it comes "implied", but for example, I've never seen a prepositional phrase having the function
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I'm sorry, but how can it be an Adverb? Wouldn't it be a Prepositional Phrase, and since it acts as an adverb, it would be an adjunct as it tells "where". Well, in my class we do things like this: What it is/What its function is.
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Hello, Specter.
In your sentence
"Working for him doesn't interest me," "working for
him" is the subject and the rest is the predicate.
The subject happens to be a
gerundive (or gerundial, as some call
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I think "left" is a Adverb phrase and a subject complement and " in an instant" is a prepositional phrase and an adjunct adverbial
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Hello . I am sponsoring a Filipino caregiver linving in Hong Kong. She is approved for her work permit and all else but no visa but I have to write a letter to get her to have her visa to Canada faster as they are being very slow. The following
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1. Yes, the difference between a complex noun phrase and a simple one is that the complex noun phrase will contain at least one dependent clause. 2. That's one of the ways of identifying noun clauses. It isn't always east, though, as you
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