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Red olive 901 Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Grammatical function played?

Hi everyone,

May I know what kind of grammatical function do the capital letter words play in the following sentences. Thank you.


A. TO MANY OBSERVERS, it appeared as though China had no overarching foreign policy strategy.B. TO SILENCE DISSENT, Xi has launched a political crackdown, alienating many of the talented Chinese citizens.C. IN HIS EFFORTS TO SILENCE DISSENT , Xi has also labeled ideas from abroad as unpatriotic and even dangerous.
  

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red olive 901 TO MANY OBSERVERS adverbial prepositional phrase on "appeared" red olive 901 TO SILENCE DISSENT adverbial prepositional phrase on "has launched" red olive 901 IN HIS EFFORTS TO SILENCE DISSENT adverbial prepositional phrase on "has labeled"

  • red olive 901 TO MANY OBSERVERS adverbial prepositional phrase on "appeared" red olive 901 TO SILENCE DISSENT adverbial prepositional phrase on "has launched" red olive 901 IN HIS EFFORTS TO SILENCE DISSENT adverbial prepositional phrase on "has labeled"
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red olive 901TO MANY OBSERVERS

adverbial prepositional phrase on "appeared"

red olive 901TO SILENCE DISSENT

adverbial prepositional phrase on "has launched"

red olive 901 IN HIS EFFORTS TO SILENCE DISSENT

adverbial prepositional phrase on "has labeled"

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red olive 901 Hi everyone,

May I know what kind of grammatical function do the capital letter words play in the following sentences. Thank you.


A. TO MANY OBSERVERS, it appeared as though China had no overarching foreign policy strategy.B. TO SILENCE DISSENT, Xi has launched a political crackdown, alienating many of the talented Chinese citizens.C. IN HIS EFFORT

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