By Prepositions, Adjuncts

Well, yes. on can be used in those cases, but then on can also be used for a variety of other adjuncts.She lashes out on Mondays.And so can many other prepositions, including at with an adjunct. She lashes out in anger.She lashes out for many reasons.She lashes out with glee.She lashes out at...

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,...

Anonymous wrote:Hi guys, just a point I'd like to clarify which was brought up at a seminar I attended regarding the drafting of legal documents.From my understanding, I've always thought that when a "request" (used as a verb) is made for an object, the sentence should be in the form "request +...

Hi guys, just a point I'd like to clarify which was brought up at a seminar I attended regarding the drafting of legal documents.From my understanding, I've always thought that when a "request" (used as a verb) is made for an object, the sentence should be in the form "request + for + object",...

Eating a hearty breakfast, we prepared for our long journey. Why is the underlined part of the sentence a participle phrase? 'eating' is a non-finite verb, not a gerund, but the whole phrase may be considered as a verbal noun (gerund phrase), not a verbal adjective (participle phrase)....

adjunct : 1) a word or word group that qualifies or completes the meaning of another word or other words and is not itself a main structural element in its sentence.2) an adverb or adverbial (as heartily in "Most children eat heartily" or at noon in "We will leave at noon") attached to the verb...

Hello, Hela. Your analysis of the first sentence (I gave my sister a cat for her birthday) is correct. I'd be happy with calling the prepositional phrase "for her birthday" an adjunct (adverbial) of time, though some more accurate label may exist. It's true that R. Quirk does not consider the...

- For adjunct, i understand it. - For "the" tiger, it means the tiger that speaker and listener already know it. - In case of tiger that the speaker has seen it at the first time or by chance, and when speaker and listener don't know it before "a" tiger should be used. --> right? (y) Very...

"on the hill" is an adjunct -- it's giving extra information about the location of the tiger. Adjuncts are not obligatory, and therefore can be left out. Your second sentence is perfectly grammatical. The difference is simply that you do not give the location of the tiger. The tiger could be...

Hi again, Lupa. You don't seem to have any problems with it! You got it right. You're right that in a), "turn on" is a transitive phrasal verb; the adverbial particle "belongs" to the verb, so to speak. In b), on the other hand, you have an intransitive verb followed by a prepositional phrase...