By Clauses, Adjuncts

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 don't see how "began to slip" can be an adjunct of any kind since it's the main verb phrase. The ladder began to slip. I was standing on it. So which I was standing on is a relative clause. CJ

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.

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...

Sorry, I have to eat humble pie. Tell me when you will arrive. when you will arrive is a nominal relative clause acting as the direct object of the verb: tell. A relative pronoun can be replaced by an adjunct form for time: when. Its use along with its antencedent some find...

Hi everybody! I have a final exam tomorrow and I have this little doubt which is disturbing me. My sentence says: 'He read the book carefully, so he acquired a good knowledge".Should I say that 'so' is a resultive conjunct (and therefore leave it outside the predicate)?Or should I say that 'so'...

1-- The parentheses are unnecessary; the clause contained is a nominal clause acting as an adjective modifying girl.2-- That is a relative pronoun referring to girl; it could be replaced by who(m).3-- Draw little lines separating the various parts (subject, verb, object, adjuncts) into related...

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...

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.