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Re: Predicative Adjective

Mister Micawber — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:50:05 GMT

I presume that you are talking about the adjective in attributive position, Philip? As predicate adjectives they are fine and common, wouldn't you say?

Re: Are they correct?

Mister Micawber — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:56:46 GMT

You cannot put a comma after booth because it is a simple sentence with a compound predicate.

You cannot use for because it is a prepostion of duration (for 20 minutes, etc), but 'arrival' is an instantaneous event, which happened, I presume, at the end of 20 minutes (in 20 minutes, etc.)

Re: why participle?

Pioussoul — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:03:38 GMT

Inchoateknowledge wrote:

Hello

I saw this syntax in a dictionary.

"The predicate is [a syntactic unit] (that functions as one of the two main constituents of a simple sentence), the other being the subject, and (that consists of a verb, which in English may agree with the subject in number,)"

Even so, even if there is a conjunction, the sentence is still unbalanced. Thanks

Hi, Incho.

I presume you omitted something singnificant to the whole statement; and I get it back in order to have a clear and whole picture of your base sentence.

The conjunction "and" is used to connect two adjectival relative clauses that modify "a syntactic unit" here, so it's balanced.

Re: Participle

Mister Micawber — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:15:40 GMT

I'm not sure whether ALL possible participles could function as adjectives; some I suppose are highly unlikely candidates. Could you list them, and we'll check?

I presume that you mean 'as a part of a verb phrase or as a predicate adjective'. The first thing I check (after the meaning, which is I think what native speakers do first) is whether the verb is a copulative; if it is 'become/seem/appear'/etc. then the following participle must (?) be functioning as an adjective; but if it is 'be', then I have to consider whether the participle is part of a passive-voice verb phrase.

Then we are back to the same problem: 'I am tired', 'he is bothered', etc., which we have previously discussed, Hanuman.