I make my living teaching.
CalifJimYes. The clause 'teaching' is subordinate in that sentence. That is, it's not the main clause.
Thank you. It seems to me that "teaching" in that sentence has a double syntax function: it is both a subordinate clause and a modifier (an adjunct). At first I've thought that it could be a predicative complement licensed by the verb "make" but I make my living can stand alone as a main clause without the modifier (adjunct) "teaching". I think that it modifies the main clause I make my living teaching.
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It's quite common to think that participle clauses of this type "modify" or that they are "adjuncts", but I am told (by someone who knows this kind of analysis better than I do) that such clauses are neither modifiers nor adjuncts. They're called "supplements". (At least I think that's the term I was told.
- It's quite common to think that participle clauses of this type "modify" or that they are "adjuncts", but I am told (by someone who knows this kind of analysis better than I do) that such clauses are neither modifiers nor adjuncts.
- They're called "supplements".
- (At least I think that's the term I was told.
- ) They give supplementary information.
- Personally, I call them "secondary predicates" because they provide a (non-finite) predicate for the subject of the main clause in addition to the (finite) predicate it already has.
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It's quite common to think that participle clauses of this type "modify" or that they are "adjuncts", but I am told (by someone who knows this kind of analysis better than I do) that such clauses are neither modifiers nor adjuncts. They're called "supplements". (At least I think that's the term I was told. You can check CGEL for that.) They give supplementary information. Personally, I ca
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