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Linian_U Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

(objective) or (Adverb)?

I have one more sentence from my English textbook Emotion: smile

"Your children always giggle at me, so it's naturally, that I lose temper"

I think it should be " It is natural " (objective) , not "naturally' (Adverb)

Am I right?
  

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Yes, you are. The complement of the verb "be" can be an adjective (like "natural"), but not an adverb (like "naturally"). Note that "natural" is not objective, it's a predicative complement.

— BillJ

  • Yes, you are.
  • The complement of the verb "be" can be an adjective (like "natural"), but not an adverb (like "naturally").
  • Note that "natural" is not objective, it's a predicative complement.
  • Incidentally, no comma is required after "natural".
  • BillJ
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Yes, you are. The complement of the verb "be" can be an adjective (like "natural"), but not an adverb (like "naturally").

Note that "natural" is not objective, it's a predicative complement.

Incidentally, no comma is required after "natural".

BillJ
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Thank you Emotion: happy

It is completely clear

P.S.
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Linian_UWhy can't it be an objective?
I don't follow you. What exactly do you mean by 'an objective'?

BillJ
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Ups....

I mean "adjective" - a part of speech (also a word class, a lexical class, or a lexical category)
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Linian_UUps....I mean "adjective" - a part of speech (also a word class, a lexical class, or a lexical category)so"is natural" as predicate is a member of sentenceand "natural" as adjective is a part of speech (also a word class, a lexical class, or a lexical category)
Yes, "natural" belongs to the category adjective.

In "it's natural that
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BillJIn "it's natural that I lose temper", the predicate (in bold) comprises the verb "be" and an adjective phrase as predicative complement.
I learn something new here every day. When I learned this, 'that I lose (my) temper' was called something like "a postposed subject", not part of an adjective phrase. I could be remembering it wrong.

CJ
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Why?

I think we talked of only "natural"
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Linian_UWhy? I think we talked of only "natural"
Yes, we did, and I'm pleased you understand that the predicate comprises "is natural", where "natural" is an adjective, which is what you were asking about.

I'm sorry if the last post has puzzled you. I avoided doing that in my reply by purposely not mentioning something called 'subject extraposition'.
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Emotion: tmi O! no no!

A "subject extraposition" is too much

The " predicate comprises" is enough

Thank you
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