By Adjuncts, Nouns

Are noun adjunct modifiers accepted in current English usage? Noun adjunct modifiers which means modifiers such as "rotten" in "rotten apple taste".Thanks.

NO, THERE IS!Muhahahahahahaha!Proof:Noun adjuncts were traditionally mostly singular (e.g. "trouser press") except when there were lexical restrictions (e.g. "arms race"), but there is a recent trend towards more use of plural ones, especially in UK English. Many of these can...

Conjunctive adverbs, or simply "conjuncts", do exist, and are different from sentence adverbials.These conjuncts link sentences or paragraphs and usually appear at the beginning of a sentence. The adverbials Anonymous mentioned in their first post, those that tell us something...

Hello.Relative clauses can only be (from a syntactic point of view) either post-modifiers of nouns/pronouns, or sentence modifiers. They are never objects; they don't modify verbs.What can be subjects or objects, WITHIN the relative clauses themselves, are the relative pronouns used (who,...

I've never heard of a pro-adjunct, but I've heard of a fused relative, so I would have called it a fused relative. The reason that he erupted in rage = Why he erupted in rage Why is the fusion of the reason and that. (that is a relative pronoun.) The analogous structure is That which...

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...

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...

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...