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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
Adverbial complement
Would you tell me if the prepositional phrase in I've always preferred coffee to tea is the adverbial complement?
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Anonymous Would you tell me if the prepositional phrase in I've always preferred coffee to tea is the adverbial complement? I've always preferred coffee to tea . Just a Complement.
- Anonymous Would you tell me if the prepositional phrase in I've always preferred coffee to tea is the adverbial complement?
- I've always preferred coffee to tea .
- Just a Complement.
- This is a term comparison construction in which "preferred" is the governor; it licenses the preposition "to" as Complement, hence "preferred" and "to" are said to be "in construction".
- The primary term in the comparison is "coffee" (the object of preferred") and the secondary term, "tea", is Complement of the preposition "to".
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AnonymousWould you tell me if the prepositional phrase in I've always preferred coffee to tea is the adverbial complement?
I've always preferred coffee to tea.
Just a Complement.
This is a term comparison construction in which "preferred" is the governor; it licenses the preposition "to" a
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