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Ganesh77 Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

noun clause?

1u00 After arriving,02u00 he or she should immediately go to bed. 02br
00Do the underlined words make up a noun clause? Do they even constitute a clause? Is it a gerund phrase? An adverbial? 02br
00Thanks for your help!! 0-
  

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0Well, they could be counted as any of those, depending on how much you want to bend the rules. 02br 00This is IMO a non-finite ing-clause used as adverbial. 02br 00Examples of the same:02br 00------02br 01i 00I didn't come out of it 01b 00looking particularly well02b 00.

— Marius Hancu

  • 0Well, they could be counted as any of those, depending on how much you want to bend the rules.
  • 02br 00This is IMO a non-finite ing-clause used as adverbial.
  • 02br 00Examples of the same:02br 00------02br 01i 00I didn't come out of it 01b 00looking particularly well02b 00.
  • 02i 02br 02br 00Biber et al, Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English, p.
  • 200 02br 00------ 0-
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0Well, they could be counted as any of those, depending on how much you want to bend the rules. 02br
00This is IMO a non-finite ing-clause used as adverbial. 02br
00Examples of the same:02br
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01i00I didn't come out of it 01b00looking particularly well02b00. 02i02br
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0 It's certainly not a noun clause. It's adverbial in nature.02br
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0Appeared to me a "participle clause" which is adverbial in nature.02br
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00It could be written as "00 00He should immediately go to bed a00fter arriving",02img0-
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0Appeared to me an "participle clause" which is adverbial in nature.02br
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00It could be written as "01u00 02u00He should immediately go to bed a01u00fter arriving",02img02u0-
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0 Thanks .. I think I've got it now!! 0-
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