Can an adverbial clause be a complement of linking verb?
Dear Billj,
I really appreciate your detailed explanation. And I understand that you considered [as his father once was] as an adjective phrase.
It's just that I can't convince myself that [as his father once was] is an adjective phrase. I think it is [as + clause], so the whole [as...] is not a prepositional phrase according to what my grammar teacher taught me.
My grammar teacher taught that:
1. phrase=not a complete sentence
2. clause=complete sentence
3. conjunctions introduce a clause
4. prepositions can't introduce a clause [(x)preposition + S + V], unless it is a wh-clause [(o)preposition + wh-word + S + V]
However, I'm convinced that [as...] acts like an adjective to function as the subject predicate. It's just that this structure contradicts to what I've learned...
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tarata88 It's just that I can't convince myself that [as his father once was] is an adjective phrase. ] is not a prepositional phrase according to what my grammar teacher taught me. I never said that "as his father once was" is an adjective phrase: I said it was a preposition phrase .
- tarata88 It's just that I can't convince myself that [as his father once was] is an adjective phrase.
- ] is not a prepositional phrase according to what my grammar teacher taught me.
- I never said that "as his father once was" is an adjective phrase: I said it was a preposition phrase .
- It's the phrase with "like" that is an adjective phrase.
- I said in note 2.
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tarata88It's just that I can't convince myself that [as his father once was] is an adjective phrase. I think it is [as + clause], so the whole [as...] is not a prepositional phrase according to what my grammar teacher taught me.
I never said that "as his father once was" is an adjective phrase: I said it was a preposition phrase. It's the phrase
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