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Taka Posted 15 years ago
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A sympathy grew in her for other humans suffering from misfortune.

About 'for other humans...' is it an adverbial phrase, or an adjectival phrase?
  

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Adjectival, modifying 'sympathy'.

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  • Adjectival, modifying 'sympathy'.
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Adjectival, modifying 'sympathy'.
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Good. So it could be "A sympathy for other humans suffering from misfortune grew in her" instead, but then the subject would be a bit long and the modifier was put at the end of the sentence, which might be why such 'split' happened?
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Not split for length, but split for focus.
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AH, that 'old/new information' thing. That could also be the reason. But I think the reason for the split could be either, or both.

Anyway, thanks MM for the comment and editing my first post.
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