Are they subject-oriented secondary prdicate?
1. Under the wounded pride, Will could sense something else in the older man. You could taste it; a nervous tension that came perilous close to fear.
I think "perilous" is a subject-oriented secondary predicate and here it equals "the tension was perilous".
2. All day, Will had felt as though something were watching him, something cold and implacable that loved him not. Gared had felt it too. Will wanted nothing so much as to ride hell-bent for the safety of the Wall, but that was not a feeling to share with your commander.
I think "hell-bent" is a subject-oriented secondary predicate and here it equals "Will was hell-bent".
Is my analysis correct?
Thank you.
Top answer
Under the wounded pride, Will could sense something else in the older man. You could taste it; a nervous tension that came perilous close to fear. The underlined expression is a relative clause modifying nervous tension .
- Under the wounded pride, Will could sense something else in the older man.
- You could taste it; a nervous tension that came perilous close to fear.
- The underlined expression is a relative clause modifying nervous tension .
- The verb phrase came perilous close to fear is the predicate in the relative clause.
- We understand ‘a nervous tension came ("was") perilous close to fear’.
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Under the wounded pride, Will could sense something else in the older man. You could taste it; a nervous tension that came perilous close to fear.
The underlined expression is a relative clause modifying nervous tension. The verb phrase came perilous close to fear is the predicate in the relative clause. We understand ‘a nervous tension came ("was") perilous c
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