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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,...

core arguments = required arguments external argument = subject internal argument can be: direct object, indirect object, prep phrase (internal arguments = complements) oblique arguments = optional arguments (oblique arguments =...

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...

I ran for a mile Is for a mile the Direct object or an adjunct in the sentence? IMO, it is a temporal adjunct expressing duration I ran a block. Is a block the Direct Object? Yes

I ran for a mile this morning. Is for a mile the Direct object or an adjunct in the sentence? I ran a block this morning. Is a block the Direct Object? what is the difference between this sentences

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...

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...

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...

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...