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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Classification problem
Hello,
I'm puzzled by the following a sentence that I read in a New Yorker article (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/18/101018fa_fact_wilentz):
“I’ve got my pipe,” he told his audience, his speech slightly muddled by the stem, “because we’re going to speak about schoolish kind of things.”
I'm not sure in which grammatical category the noun phrase "his speech slightly muddled by the stem" fits. When I usually recognize a noun phrases, I think of an appostive, adjectives; however, is this an adverbial adjunct because the prhase defines the manner in which Glenn Beck speaks to his audience?
Thank you in advance for your help!
Stefan.
I'm puzzled by the following a sentence that I read in a New Yorker article (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/18/101018fa_fact_wilentz):
“I’ve got my pipe,” he told his audience, his speech slightly muddled by the stem, “because we’re going to speak about schoolish kind of things.”
I'm not sure in which grammatical category the noun phrase "his speech slightly muddled by the stem" fits. When I usually recognize a noun phrases, I think of an appostive, adjectives; however, is this an adverbial adjunct because the prhase defines the manner in which Glenn Beck speaks to his audience?
Thank you in advance for your help!
Stefan.
Top answer
The noun is speech and the adjective is muddled. his speech, which was slightly muddled by the stem,... It is a reduction of a non-essential clause.
- The noun is speech and the adjective is muddled.
- his speech, which was slightly muddled by the stem,...
- It is a reduction of a non-essential clause.
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The noun is speech and the adjective is muddled. It is a reduction of this:
...his speech, which was slightly muddled by the stem,...
It is a reduction of a non-essential clause.
...his speech, which was slightly muddled by the stem,...
It is a reduction of a non-essential clause.
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AnonymousI'm not sure in which grammatical category the noun phrase "his speech slightly muddled by the stem" fits.Well, to start with, it's not a noun phrase; it's a clause, specifically a "small clause".
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