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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Adverbial sentence structure at the end
Aight guys,
I've got a very peculiar question I seem unable to solve.
As we all (should) know, the proper sequence of adverbs at the end of a sentence is (meaning- place- time)
However, I've stumbled upon this sentence:
"You should be hounded across the desert naked"
Correct though it sounded to me, it made me wonder whether it shouldn't have been "hounded naked across the desert" for the reasons expounded on above.
Answers containing a grammatical explanation will be appreciated
I've got a very peculiar question I seem unable to solve.
As we all (should) know, the proper sequence of adverbs at the end of a sentence is (meaning- place- time)
However, I've stumbled upon this sentence:
"You should be hounded across the desert naked"
Correct though it sounded to me, it made me wonder whether it shouldn't have been "hounded naked across the desert" for the reasons expounded on above.
Answers containing a grammatical explanation will be appreciated
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I could be wrong but I think not putting a comma in front of the naked is a common mistake people tend to make. Since "naked", which could also be "being naked" due to its nature of being an adverbial CLAUSE, is, as already stated, a participle/adverbial clause, thus making it a sub-clause, it's supposed to be in the beginning or at the end of a sentence
- I could be wrong but I think not putting a comma in front of the naked is a common mistake people tend to make.
- Since "naked", which could also be "being naked" due to its nature of being an adverbial CLAUSE, is, as already stated, a participle/adverbial clause, thus making it a sub-clause, it's supposed to be in the beginning or at the end of a sentence
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I could be wrong but I think not putting a comma in front of the naked is a common mistake people tend to make. Since "naked", which could also be "being naked" due to its nature of being an adverbial CLAUSE, is, as already stated, a participle/adverbial clause, thus making it a sub-clause, it's supposed to be in the beginning or at the end of a sentence
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Anonymousit made me wonder whether it shouldn't have been "hounded naked across the desert"No. Either word order is fine. No commas are needed either way.
Research "subject-oriented secondary predication" and see if you think that's what's going on here with the word "naked".
CJ
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