By Nouns, 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've never heard of a pro-adjunct, but I've heard of a fused relative, so I would have called it a fused relative. The reason that he erupted in rage = Why he erupted in rage Why is the fusion of the reason and that. (that is a relative pronoun.) The analogous structure is That which...

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 roles are...

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...

After the fire, very little remained of my house." "of my house" is a predicative or an attributive of "very little After the fire = temporal adjunct (time adverbial phrase) little = subject (noun) very = modifies the subject, an attributive adjective. After the fire ... remained of my...