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It functions as both!!!This construct is called (Take a deep breath!) a subject-oriented depictive secondary predication.The primary predication here is that he escaped. The secondary predication is that he was unharmed. But the 'unharmed' part happened during the escape, so...

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...

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...

Hello Anon Thank you for the reply. Are you asking why I ask your thought? It's because you said in the post 145815 that you would read "alive" as an object complement. The reason I am saying that "alive" is not a usual object complement is that the sentence can make sense even if we can...

Hi, that's a cute name. Your analysis of the sentence is correct for the most part. "Next to it is" is the predicate of the sentence. The subject is the rest of the sentence, not just "a different sign". Are you familiar with "adjectival/relative clauses"? That's what you have after...

"Also" is what some authors call a "focusing adjunct" (rather than an "intensifier"). When it appears between the subject and the predicate (as it does in "I also threw the ball"), it can usually focus on more than one parf ot the sentence, and the part focused is marked easily in actual speech...