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Qingqing Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Parts of a sentense

0 Can anyone help me to analyse the following sentences? 02br
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00...her mother married young. 02br
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00the child was born dead. 02br
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00The old man died happy. 02br
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00he was sitting straight there. 02br
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00What kind of parts of "young","dead","happy","straight" in the sentences? 0-
  

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0 Hello QingQing 02br 02br 00I have just made a similar question to teachers. All the words you are questioning belong lexically to the category of adjectives. All of your sentences have a construct in a form 01 00 (S=subject, V:verbal, C=complement, mostly an adjective but sometimes a noun : [EX] He died an admiral).

— Paco2004

  • 0 Hello QingQing 02br 02br 00I have just made a similar question to teachers.
  • All the words you are questioning belong lexically to the category of adjectives.
  • All of your sentences have a construct in a form 01 00 (S=subject, V:verbal, C=complement, mostly an adjective but sometimes a noun : [EX] He died an admiral).
  • I call this C as 'adjunctive subject-oriented complements'.
  • This C is different in its 'adjunctiveness' from those in usual 01 00 constructions.
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0 Hello QingQing 02br
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00I have just made a similar question to teachers. All the words you are questioning belong lexically to the category of adjectives. All of your sentences have a construct in a form 0100 (S=subject, V:verbal, C=complement, mostly an adjective but sometimes a noun : [EX] He died an admiral). I call this C as 'adjunctive subject-oriente
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