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Merriam-Webster's 10th edition defines "to" with the infinitive under "preposition" (sense 8). I'm having trouble understanding why that would be, especially since prepositions are supposed to take substantives as objects. However, as a Greek teacher, I understand the...

Merriam-Webster's 10th edition defines "to" with the infinitive under "preposition" (sense 8). I'm having trouble understanding why that would be, especially since prepositions are supposed to take substantives as objects. However, as a Greek teacher, I understand the...

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,...

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...

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...

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...