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Flora123 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Adverbial phrase between verb and direct object
Hi,
I have read some sentences, with the adverbial phrase placed between the transitive verb and the direct object (noun clause in this case) like the following:
1. Here's your chance to share and discuss with each other what you are writing about.
2. I could see by your bouncy personality that you'd enjoy bungee jumping.
Could you kindly help tell me if this placement is acceptable? (There is a rule: An adverb should not be placed between the verb it is modifying and the direct object.) Is there something different for adverbial phrase and noun clause-as direct object-here?
Many thanks.
I have read some sentences, with the adverbial phrase placed between the transitive verb and the direct object (noun clause in this case) like the following:
1. Here's your chance to share and discuss with each other what you are writing about.
2. I could see by your bouncy personality that you'd enjoy bungee jumping.
Could you kindly help tell me if this placement is acceptable? (There is a rule: An adverb should not be placed between the verb it is modifying and the direct object.) Is there something different for adverbial phrase and noun clause-
Many thanks.
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This rule is usually sensible. However, when the object is a long noun phrase, the alternatives may be less clear, or may introduce too much distance between sentence components. Here's your chance to share and discuss with each other what you are writing about.
- This rule is usually sensible.
- However, when the object is a long noun phrase, the alternatives may be less clear, or may introduce too much distance between sentence components.
- Here's your chance to share and discuss with each other what you are writing about.
- -- Tolerable in the absence of better alternatives.
- Here's your chance to share and discuss what you are writing about with each other -- Seems a bit awkward because "writing about with each other" tends to be read as one phrase.
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This rule is usually sensible. However, when the object is a long noun phrase, the alternatives may be less clear, or may introduce too much distance between sentence components.
Here's your chance to share and discuss with each other what you are writing about. -- Tolerable in the absence of better alternatives.
Here's your chance to share and discuss what you are writing a
Here's your chance to share and discuss with each other what you are writing about. -- Tolerable in the absence of better alternatives.
Here's your chance to share and discuss what you are writing a
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Thank you so much for your quick and helpful reply. Yes, for (2), "see" is a perception verb, not properly transitive in the sense I mentioned above.
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