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Eddie88 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Hard- A phrase with a clause. Type...
The cherubs of that architectual sky were pigeons, so far overhead in their flutter from roost to roost that they were only faintly discernible.
What is the phrase in italics (including the that-clause).
It has simply omitted the subject and verb (they were so far overhead...). Why can the subject- verb be omitted? I know absolute phrases permit this, but this one....
I know it isn't a sumative modifier or an absolute phrase...And it can't just be an adverb phrase...
What type of phrase, with the clause inside, is this?
Thanks a lot in advance.
What is the phrase in italics (including the that-clause).
It has simply omitted the subject and verb (they were so far overhead...). Why can the subject- verb be omitted? I know absolute phrases permit this, but this one....
I know it isn't a sumative modifier or an absolute phrase...And it can't just be an adverb phrase...
What type of phrase, with the clause inside, is this?
Thanks a lot in advance.
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Eddie: In my humble and amateur opinion, it is a complex adverbial phrase "so far (adverb" that" is a very common expression. The train was so far away that we could neither see nor hear it, but we could feel its vibrations on the track. The subject and verb are in the main clause and it is OK to insert a complement (predicate noun - pigeons) The cherubs were so far overhead that...
- Eddie: In my humble and amateur opinion, it is a complex adverbial phrase "so far (adverb" that" is a very common expression.
- The train was so far away that we could neither see nor hear it, but we could feel its vibrations on the track.
- The subject and verb are in the main clause and it is OK to insert a complement (predicate noun - pigeons) The cherubs were so far overhead that...
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Eddie:
In my humble and amateur opinion, it is a complex adverbial phrase "so far (adverb" that" is a very common expression.
The train was so far away that we could neither see nor hear it, but we could feel its vibrations on the track.
The subject and verb are in the main clause and it is OK to insert a complement (predicate noun - pigeons)
The cherubs were so far over
In my humble and amateur opinion, it is a complex adverbial phrase "so far (adverb" that" is a very common expression.
The train was so far away that we could neither see nor hear it, but we could feel its vibrations on the track.
The subject and verb are in the main clause and it is OK to insert a complement (predicate noun - pigeons)
The cherubs were so far over
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Cheers, I'd agree with everything you say!
However, being adverbial would mean it cannot be a complement, I would have thought. It would have to be a noun phrase. Do you see it functioning adverbally, but grammatically functioning as a noun phrase (subject complement)?? So you are saying it is in apposition to the predicate noun right?...
Thanks in advance!
However, being adverbial would mean it cannot be a complement, I would have thought. It would have to be a noun phrase. Do you see it functioning adverbally, but grammatically functioning as a noun phrase (subject complement)?? So you are saying it is in apposition to the predicate noun right?...
Thanks in advance!
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