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Re: conjunctive adverbs

miriam — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:13:39 GMT

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 about the verb (why, when, where, how, what for, etc.) are adjuncts (as opposed to conjuncts. Unlike conjuncts, adjuncts are part of the structure of the sentence (from the point of view of syntax); they will appear in the predicate. You also have âsentence adverbialsâ, which modify an entire clause or sentence and are placed, usually, at the beginning of the sentence).

Adverb: a part of speech whose main function is that of modifying a verb, an adjective or another adverb.

Adverbial: a syntactic function that may be realised by a number of structures (and even single words): adverbs, prepositional phrases, clauses (both finite and non-finite), noun phrases.

Both conjuncts and adjuncts are adverbials, only they are of different types.

Most conjuncts are adverbs or prepositional phrases: however, consequently, yet (meaning âhoweverâ), firstly, lastly, anyway, nonetheless, nevertheless, meanwhile, by the way, on the one hand, on the other hand, to begin with, to sum up, in short, etc. Even some conjunctions can function as conjuncts, as long as they appear at the very beginning of the sentence (for example âandâ and âbutâ). again, these are not part of either the subject or the predicate, but remain outside the structure of the sentence and act as links to the previous sentence/s or paragraph.

Miriam

Re: Why he erupted in rage is of no importance.

Mister Micawber — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:09:43 GMT

Although 'why' itself is an adverb, it is used here as (to use Quirk's phrase) a pro-adjunct to introduce the nominal clause ('why he erupted in rage'), all of which together is the subject of the sentence.

Re: twice is a adverb

Conchita57 — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:23:44 GMT

This should clear your doubts:

adjunct
noun [ C ] FORMAL
In grammar, an adjunct is an adverb or adverbial phrase that gives extra information in a sentence.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

twice is a adverb

User_gary — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:39:07 GMT

I go there twice a week.

Here I thought `twice' was a adverb.

Now, someone told, it is a `adjunct'.

So I am being confused.

Is the `adjunct' and `adverbs' are one and the same?

Re: sentence analysis 9/12/06

Inchoateknowledge — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:42:25 GMT

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 clause)

A relative clause cannot describe a verb (come), only nouns.

compare

I remember the day when we played in the garden.

when = relative adverb

when we played in the garden = adjectival clause = relative clause, describes the noun, day.

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Tell me when you will arrive

when = adverb and modifies arrive (verb)

when you will arrive = temporal adjunct clause, also the object of tell

me = indirect object.

Re: two questions for help, even if a hint

Welkins2139 — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:42:05 GMT

Inchoateknowledge wrote:
Welkins2139 wrote:
Inchoateknowledge wrote:

Some people say that it is wrong for the government to spend much money on artistic projects, such as paintings and sculptures in public places."

"In public places, an adverbial phrase, modfies on artistic projects, an adjective phrase. "

"In public places, an adverbial phrase"

Yes, a locative adjunct

"in public places" "modfies on artistic projects, an adjective phrase" No

it modifies "paintings and sculptures"

artistic project is not an adjectival phrase.

"Project" is the head and is a noun, so it is a noun phrase.

I disagree.

If you take away such as paintings and sculptures, it will be on artistic projects in public places. In public places, adverb phrase, modifies, On artistic projects, adjective phrases.

on artistic projects modfies money.

What do you mean by taking away "paintings and sculptures"?

You can not take it away, since they are anchored to "in public places".

Where is an adjective phrase here?

Some people say that it is wrong for the government to spend much money on artistic projects in public places.

On "such as paintings and sculptures in public places, " I do not think that in public places modifies paintings and sculptures. I think in public places modifies on artistic projects . I think sometimes an adverbial phrase ends up in an end of a sentence.

On artistic projects modifies money.

Re: two questions for help, even if a hint

Inchoateknowledge — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:28:58 GMT

Welkins2139 wrote:
Inchoateknowledge wrote:

Some people say that it is wrong for the government to spend much money on artistic projects, such as paintings and sculptures in public places."

"In public places, an adverbial phrase, modfies on artistic projects, an adjective phrase. "

"In public places, an adverbial phrase"

Yes, a locative adjunct

"in public places" "modfies on artistic projects, an adjective phrase" No

it modifies "paintings and sculptures"

artistic project is not an adjectival phrase.

"Project" is the head and is a noun, so it is a noun phrase.

I disagree.

If you take away such as paintings and sculptures, it will be on artistic projects in public places. In public places, adverb phrase, modifies, On artistic projects, adjective phrases.

on artistic projects modfies money.

What do you mean by taking away "paintings and sculptures"?

You can not take it away, since they are anchored to "in public places".

Where is an adjective phrase here?

Re: two questions for help, even if a hint

Welkins2139 — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:55:56 GMT

Inchoateknowledge wrote:

Some people say that it is wrong for the government to spend much money on artistic projects, such as paintings and sculptures in public places."

"In public places, an adverbial phrase, modfies on artistic projects, an adjective phrase. "

"In public places, an adverbial phrase"

Yes, a locative adjunct

"in public places" "modfies on artistic projects, an adjective phrase" No

it modifies "paintings and sculptures"

artistic project is not an adjectival phrase.

"Project" is the head and is a noun, so it is a noun phrase.

I disagree.

If you take away such as paintings and sculptures, it will be on artistic projects in public places. In public places, adverb phrase, modifies, On artistic projects, adjective phrases.

on artistic projects modfies money.

Re: complement

LearningNerd — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:23:11 GMT

Isn't "to have met you" a noun phrase (an infinitive phrase)? A clause requires a finite verb, and an infinitive ("to have") is a nonfinite verb.

Anyway, "to have met you" modifies the adjective "glad", so I guess it could be seen as a kind of adverb. Unfortunately, these grammatical terms can be really confusing. As Wikipedia points out here: "Object complements can often be removed leaving a well-formed sentence, thus the use of the term complement is slightly illogical." So, I guess the so-called "adjective complement" works the same way.

Besides that, it wouldn't be an adjunct because (according to Wikipedia) "an adjunct is a sentence element that establishes the circumstances in which the action or state expressed by the verb take place." So, unlike an adverb, an adjunct only modifies verbs, not adjectives.

I agree with you that it shouldn't be called a complement, but that's what the experts decided to call it.

EDIT: I had pointed out that removing "to have met you" would completely change the meaning of the sentence, but I realized (silly me) that removing any adjective or adverb would do the same.

So, "to have met you" isn't a complement in the strictest sense, but the term "complement" is used to describe more than one thing. Again, to quote Wikipedia: "In grammar the term complement is sometimes used with different meanings. . . . We find complements which function as a sentence element (i.e. of equal status to subjects and objects) and complements which exist within sentence elements."

complement

Inchoateknowledge — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:57:41 GMT

I am glad to have met you.

why the noun clause is a adjective complement I do not know.

Is it not an causal adjunct, (an adverb)?

Adjuncts can be dropped, complements can not.

I am glad -- this sentence is fine, so the noun clause should not be called a complement.