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Moon7296 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
complement, adjunct
1. This medicine works well.
2. These socks will last long.
3. Man cannot exist without air.
4. They play on the street.
5. Love comes from the heart.
6. Foods go bad easily.
7. Foods go bad easily in summer.
8. The bird fell prey to the eagle.
Q) Do the sentences #1~8 make sense without the underlined part or the underlined part is optional?
2. These socks will last long.
3. Man cannot exist without air.
4. They play on the street.
5. Love comes from the heart.
6. Foods go bad easily.
7. Foods go bad easily in summer.
8. The bird fell prey to the eagle.
Q) Do the sentences #1~8 make sense without the underlined part or the underlined part is optional?
Top answer
They are all possible, but some are more likely than others. For example, "This medicine works" is fairly unremarkable, whereas "Love comes" would need a special setup to work. The underlined part is not necessarily assumed.
- They are all possible, but some are more likely than others.
- For example, "This medicine works" is fairly unremarkable, whereas "Love comes" would need a special setup to work.
- The underlined part is not necessarily assumed.
- For example, "Love comes" does not particularly imply "Love comes from the heart".
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They are all possible, but some are more likely than others. For example, "This medicine works" is fairly unremarkable, whereas "Love comes" would need a special setup to work. The underlined part is not necessarily assumed. For example, "Love comes" does not particularly imply "Love comes from the heart".
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GPYThey are all possibleAh. All the sentences from my examples without underlined parts can stand by themselves? (grammatically okay despite its unnaturalness if there's no underlined part like you said "Love comes" would need a special setup to work, right?)
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moon7296Ah. All the sentences from my examples without underlined parts can stand by themselves?Grammatically, yes (with, as you say, the earlier caveats about how realistic they are in practice).
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