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Qingqing Posted 20 years ago
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a predicative or an attributive?

In the sentence, "After the fire, very little remained of my house." "of my house" is a predicative or an attributive of "very little"?

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" "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 house = predicate remained = verb of my house is a prep phrase, and an adjectival (modifies the subject = noun) predicative ( it is in the predicate) of the subject .

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  • " "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 house = predicate remained = verb of my house is a prep phrase, and an adjectival (modifies the subject = noun) predicative ( it is in the predicate) of the subject .
  • I hope I am not off base here.
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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 house = predicate

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I often see "of + abstract noun" or "of /age/colour..." used as a predicative. eg.

1. What is happening is of great importance to us.

2. The towers were exactly of the same height.

Can anyone give me more examples like the sentence we have discussed?
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