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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Grammatical functions
hello everyone, i really need your help.
i want to give an analysis of the following two clauses in terms of grammatical functions.
1) she cut the cheese with a knife.
"she"= the subject?, "cut"= verb or predicate?,"the cheese"= object?, "with a knife"= an adjunct or an optional adverbial of manner??
2) she dropped the coffee pot in the study.4
same here
she=subject?, dropped=predicate or verb?,in the study=optional adverbial of place or optional adverbial? and what about direct and indirect objects?
I would appreciate the solution and the explanation to my problem
i want to give an analysis of the following two clauses in terms of grammatical functions.
1) she cut the cheese with a knife.
"she"= the subject?, "cut"= verb or predicate?,"the cheese"= object?, "with a knife"= an adjunct or an optional adverbial of manner??
2) she dropped the coffee pot in the study.4
same here
she=subject?, dropped=predicate or verb?,in the study=optional adverbial of place or optional adverbial? and what about direct and indirect objects?
I would appreciate the solution and the explanation to my problem
Top answer
, "with a knife"= an adjunct or an optional adverbial of manner?? All correct. ,in the study=optional adverbial of place or optional adverbial?
- , "with a knife"= an adjunct or an optional adverbial of manner??
- All correct.
- ,in the study=optional adverbial of place or optional adverbial?
- and what about direct and indirect objects?
- All correct.
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"she"= the subject?, "cut"= verb or predicate?,"the cheese"= object?, "with a knife"= an adjunct or an optional adverbial of manner?? All correct.
she=subject?, dropped=predicate or verb?,in the study=optional adverbial of place or optional adverbial? and what about direct and indirect objects?
she=subject?, dropped=
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