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Thein lwin Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

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Ona can visit mountain resorts such as Tretes and Selecta; take a short ferry ride from the city of Surabaya to Mudura for a heart stopping bull race, filled with excitement.
In this sentence, is the phrase 'filled with excitement' adjective or adverb?
  

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thein lwin adjective Or, in more modern terms, a noun post-modifier. It describes the bull race.

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  • thein lwin adjective Or, in more modern terms, a noun post-modifier.
  • It describes the bull race.
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thein lwinadjective
Or, in more modern terms, a noun post-modifier.
It describes the bull race.
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I don't understand why a comma is after 'bull race'.
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thein lwinI don't understand why a comma is after 'bull race'.
I don't either. I would not have put that comma there.

CJ
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CalifJim thein lwinI don't understand why a comma is after 'bull race'.I don't either. I would not have put that comma there.CJ
I think it is an adverbial concerning "take a short ferry ride".
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thein lwinI think it is an adverbial concerning "take a short ferry ride".
1. Are you saying that this is a justification for the comma?
2. Those words are quite far apart. Your interpretation doesn't seem reasonable to me.

CJ
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Arrived at the station, he found his train gone.
In this sentence, I'd like to know the grammatical function of 'arrived at the station'.
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thein lwinArrived at the station, he found his train gone.
Your sentence is a little iffy; it's only borderline grammatical. It's unusual to use the past participle of an intransitive verb that way. I wish you had given us a better sentence to discuss.

Let's say it's Having arrived at the station, he found his train gone. The function of th
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CalifJim thein lwinArrived at the station, he found his train gone.Your sentence is a little iffy; it's only borderline grammatical. It's unusual to use the past participle of an intransitive verb that way. I wish you had given us a better sentence to discuss. Let's say it's Having arrived at the station, he found his train gone. The function of that initial participial c
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thein lwinThe sentence is from 'A HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR' by R.W.ZANDVOORT
And what does the book say about this sentence, in particular, the initial clause?

A native speaker would say it a different way.
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thein lwinI think it is an adverbial concerning "take a short ferry ride".
Ona can visit mountain resorts such as Tretes and Selecta; take a short ferry ride from the city of Surabaya to Mudura for a heart stopping bull race, filled with excitement.

The writer says that the bull race is "heart stopping." Heart-stopping is an adjective fo
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