Identify the terms

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Experlain the following terms and identify one example of each in the text below:

1. notional passive

2. noun phrase functioning as Direct Object and Subject

3. alternative disjunction

4. concomitative adverbial

5. non-subject sentence theme



Muesli bars can be bought in bettter suppermarkets. They can be eaten either as a snack or with a meal. When very cold, they don't cut easily with a knife, so it's better to let them warm up before using them. Nutritionally, they are packed with healthy ingerdients and are far better than oily or salty junk foods.

1) notional passive - a word in the sentence which is not passive but get the passive meaning

they don't cut easily with a knife - cut is a notional passive

3) alternative disjunction - is a co-ordinator to connect two statements and only of which may be true.

They can be eaten either as a snack or with a meal. either .... or is an alternative disjunction.

4) concomitative adverbial - adverbial of circumstance

When very cold - is a concomitative adverbial

5.) non-subject sentence theme - An opening of sentence without subject.

Nutritionally - is non- subject sentence theme.

to let them warm up before using them - is noun phrase functioning as Direct Object and Subject.

Where "them" serves as direct object in the phrase "to let them" --( V DO )

Then, the first "them" becomes subject in the phrase " them warm up before using them"

- ( S V A )



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