By Grammar, Adjuncts

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...

All that comes to mind offhand is as an adjectival adjunct (The man in the hat...) and as an adverbial (... ran across the boulevard).

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...

As far as I can determine, ablative absolute applies to Latin, not English: 'In Latin grammar, an adverbial phrase syntactically independent from the rest of the sentence and containing a noun or pronoun plus an adjunct, usually a participle or adjective, with both elements in the ablative...

Hello, Jimmychoo. The subordinate clause in your sentence sounds a bit odd for the theme of the sentence -at least to me. Anyway, if it is actually the theme, it is an instance of marked theme. In functional grammar, you speak of "unmarked theme" when the theme overlaps with the subject of the...

Rvw wrote:I think the rules are the same for spoken and written English. It's just harder to follow them on the fly. Could you take a look at this and give some feedback? Question tags. Do they stem from spoken grammar or written grammar? You like him. don't you? Ellipsis in interrogatives....

All the following exchanges contain "mistakes". I am finding it incredibly difficualt to explain what these mistakes are, as I dont fully understand them to BE mistakes. Can anybody help me solve these problems? I would greatly appreciate all help given (I certainly need it!) 1 "Have you got...

These are examples of either standard English for a dialect other than Standard English or they are examples of non-standard Standard English. English has many different registers. The way English is actually used in REAL life is not the manner described by most grammar books. Yesterday, I...