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Kwon Ki Poong Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Re : adjective
We swim along fully aware of dangerous under-currents.
I saw this sentence on the net.
and I kwow that this sentence is not wrong, but can't understand the structure of it grammatically.
How 'aware' can come right after 'swim'?
Is there something that I should know?
and can I say, "We swim happy" now that happy is an adjective like aware?
Is this some kind of omission? like
We swim along with my being fully aware of ~
thanks for you answer in advance.
I saw this sentence on the net.
and I kwow that this sentence is not wrong, but can't understand the structure of it grammatically.
How 'aware' can come right after 'swim'?
Is there something that I should know?
and can I say, "We swim happy" now that happy is an adjective like aware?
Is this some kind of omission? like
We swim along with my being fully aware of ~
thanks for you answer in advance.
Top answer
Hello, Kwon Ki Poong-- and welcome to English Forums! Some look at this as a subject-less and verb-less clause: We swim along [as/though we are] fully aware of dangerous under-currents . Because we can complete the idea with the pure copula 'be', we could look at 'aware' as a subject complement (a predicate adjective modifying 'we'), but since we can front the phrase– Fully aware of dangerous under-currents, we swim along – we should consider it an adverbial modifying the whole main clause.
- Hello, Kwon Ki Poong-- and welcome to English Forums!
- Some look at this as a subject-less and verb-less clause: We swim along [as/though we are] fully aware of dangerous under-currents .
- Because we can complete the idea with the pure copula 'be', we could look at 'aware' as a subject complement (a predicate adjective modifying 'we'), but since we can front the phrase– Fully aware of dangerous under-currents, we swim along – we should consider it an adverbial modifying the whole main clause.
- We swim happy is possible, too, but the technique is a slightly literary or rhetorical one, and quickly suffers from overuse.
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Hello, Kwon Ki Poong-- and welcome to English Forums!
Some look at this as a subject-less and verb-less clause: We swim along [as/though we are] fully aware of dangerous under-currents.
Because we can complete the idea with the pure copula 'be', we could look at 'aware' as a subject complement (a predicate adjective modifying 'we'), but since we can front the phrase–
Some look at this as a subject-less and verb-less clause: We swim along [as/though we are] fully aware of dangerous under-currents.
Because we can complete the idea with the pure copula 'be', we could look at 'aware' as a subject complement (a predicate adjective modifying 'we'), but since we can front the phrase–
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are you a master or something? I'm not sarcastic.
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are you a master or something? I'm not sarcastic.
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Ms Google gives me these figures:
What great advice - About 350,000 results
What a great advice - About 898,000 results (though some refer to 'advice' as an adjective: an advice article, an advice feature)
That is indeed disappointing, because the 2nd one is wrong by any grammarian's standard. 'Advice' is uncountable, and its counter is 'piece': What
What great advice - About 350,000 results
What a great advice - About 898,000 results (though some refer to 'advice' as an adjective: an advice article, an advice feature)
That is indeed disappointing, because the 2nd one is wrong by any grammarian's standard. 'Advice' is uncountable, and its counter is 'piece': What
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and thanks *** that I found this website.
It's really helpful for someone like me who uses English as a second language.
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