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Cup cake Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Disjunct versus Adjunct

Hi Everyone,

What is the main difference between the two. When I read the meaning of each on the Internet, they seem the same; both provide information about a subject that may be discarded.

Slightly confusing, me thinks. Emotion: thinking

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disjunct - An adverbial that has a more detached role in a clause or sentence structure than other adverbials. They are sometimes called sentence adjuncts, sentence adverbials , or sentence modifiers. g.

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  • disjunct - An adverbial that has a more detached role in a clause or sentence structure than other adverbials.
  • They are sometimes called sentence adjuncts, sentence adverbials , or sentence modifiers.
  • g.
  • tragically in Tragically , the rescue party arrived too late or they claim that the statement is being made in a particular way (style disjuncts), as in Honestly , nobody could have done any better , To be frank , the whole thing was hopeless .
  • ) ________________________ adjunct - roughly, an adverbial, usually marginal in the sentence and therefore omissible.
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disjunct - An adverbial that has a more detached role in a clause or sentence structure than other adverbials.
They are sometimes called sentence adjuncts, sentence adverbials, or sentence modifiers.

They express the speaker's attitude to the content of the sentence (content disjuncts), e.g. tragically in Tragically, the rescue party arrive
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Cup cakeWhen I read the meaning of each on the Internet,
Where on the Internet do you read?

Here are definitions from a dictionary.
disjunct

adjective
1. disjoined; separated.
2. Music. progressing melodically by intervals larger than a second.
3. Entomology. having the head, thorax, and abdomen separated by deep constr
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Cup cake Disjunct versus Adjunct
These terms are usually used to describe sentential (sentence) adverbials and verb phrase (predicate) adverbials, respectively. As the Latin suggests, the first is "disjoined"
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Crystal clear CJ! Emotion: party!!!

Got it!
You really are an amazing teacher! Your students are very lucky.
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Thanks A.S.

Yes, I read very similar to what you've written here, but no better off.

Thank you for posting all of this. You're great!
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