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Hela Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
sentence analysis 2
Dear teachers,
Would you please help me analyzing the following sentences and tell me which adverbials are optional and which ones are obligatory?
1. They parted good friends.
“good friends” = Subject complement or Adverbial (optional or obligatory) ?
2. They married young.
“Young” = Subj. compl. or Adverbial (opt. or oblig.) ?
3. The sun shone bright.
= bright = Adverbial of manner ? (opt. or oblig.?)
4. Hungrily, the dog smelled at the package.
Verb = “smell” or “smell at”?
Direct object = “at the package”; OR
“the package = object of the preposition “at”?
Hungrily = optional or obligatory adverbial of manner?
5. She has quite rapidly become an expert.
"an expert" = Subj. complement
"quite rapidly" = Adv. of time (opt. or oblig.) ?
6. The phone rang loudly in the night. =
optional or obligatory adverbials?
7. She is remaining at .
"is remaining" = intransitive verb ?
"at Cambridge" = optional or oblig. adverbial of place?
8. My watch has disappeared from my desk.
"has disappeared" = intransitive verb ?
"from my desk" = opt. or oblig. adverbial of place ?
9. The soldiers fought well. = S V A(manner) ?
optional or obligatory?
10. She agreed to be my friend for life.
"agreed to be" = transitive verb?
"Agreed to be" = transitive verb + complemental infinitive ?
"my friend" = direct object?
"for life" = adverbial of time (opt. or oblig.)?
Thanks a million for your patience.
Kind regards,
Would you please help me analyzing the following sentences and tell me which adverbials are optional and which ones are obligatory?
1. They parted good friends.
“good friends” = Subject complement or Adverbial (optional or obligatory) ?
2. They married young.
“Young” = Subj. compl. or Adverbial (opt. or oblig.) ?
3. The sun shone bright.
= bright = Adverbial of manner ? (opt. or oblig.?)
4. Hungrily, the dog smelled at the package.
Verb = “smell” or “smell at”?
Direct object = “at the package”; OR
“the package = object of the preposition “at”?
Hungrily = optional or obligatory adverbial of manner?
5. She has quite rapidly become an expert.
"an expert" = Subj. complement
"quite rapidly" = Adv. of time (opt. or oblig.) ?
6. The phone rang loudly in the night. =
optional or obligatory adverbials?
7. She is remaining at .
"is remaining" = intransitive verb ?
"at Cambridge" = optional or oblig. adverbial of place?
8. My watch has disappeared from my desk.
"has disappeared" = intransitive verb ?
"from my desk" = opt. or oblig. adverbial of place ?
9. The soldiers fought well. = S V A(manner) ?
optional or obligatory?
10. She agreed to be my friend for life.
"agreed to be" = transitive verb?
"Agreed to be" = transitive verb + complemental infinitive ?
"my friend" = direct object?
"for life" = adverbial of time (opt. or oblig.)?
Thanks a million for your patience.
Kind regards,
Top answer
Hello Hela again 1. They parted good friends. This sentence can be a contracted form of "They parted, being good friends".
- Hello Hela again 1.
- They parted good friends.
- This sentence can be a contracted form of "They parted, being good friends".
- So "good friends" can be parsed as an subject complement as well as an adverbial.
- "Good friends" is optional, because "they parted" makes sense by itself.
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Hello Hela again
1. They parted good friends.
This sentence can be a contracted form of "They parted, being good friends". So "good friends" can be parsed as an subject complement as well as an adverbial. "Good friends" is optional, because "they parted" makes sense by itself.
2. They married young.
Same as 1.
3. The sun shone bright.
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Thanks, Paco. I'll study that carefully and I'll come back to you if necessary.
Kind regards,
Hela
Kind regards,
Hela
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Dear teachers,
If you wouldn't mind I have plenty of sentences I'd like you to correct. Would it be possible for me to send them to you bit by bit for a correction?
I'll start here with the first six. Please tell me if I can carry on.
1) The sun shone on us brightly.
the sun = subject
shone = intransitive verb ?
on us = adverbial of
If you wouldn't mind I have plenty of sentences I'd like you to correct. Would it be possible for me to send them to you bit by bit for a correction?
I'll start here with the first six. Please tell me if I can carry on.
1) The sun shone on us brightly.
the sun = subject
shone = intransitive verb ?
on us = adverbial of
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Please don't forget to give me an answer whenever possible.
Thank you in advance.
Thank you in advance.
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Hello Hela
Sorry, I've only just seen your thread:
1. I would take "shine on" as a prepositional verb, and "us" as the prepositional object. But other parsers will disagree...
2. I wonder whether we could take "a perfect game" as a cognate object here. She didn't literally "pitch" the game; she pitched ***** in such a way that she did well in the game. Thus "a game" deno
Sorry, I've only just seen your thread:
1. I would take "shine on" as a prepositional verb, and "us" as the prepositional object. But other parsers will disagree...
2. I wonder whether we could take "a perfect game" as a cognate object here. She didn't literally "pitch" the game; she pitched ***** in such a way that she did well in the game. Thus "a game" deno
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There are many sentences here, Hela! I don't have enough time to go over all of them now, but I'll try to come back to the forums some time during the weekend.
What I can tell you, for now, is that adverbials are, in general, considered optional elements in a sentence. They are "circumstances" of the verb and, even when from the point of view of meaning the presence or the absence of a gi
What I can tell you, for now, is that adverbials are, in general, considered optional elements in a sentence. They are "circumstances" of the verb and, even when from the point of view of meaning the presence or the absence of a gi
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Hello Hela
Please allow to put my 2 cents only to the question #1.
Please allow to put my 2 cents only to the question #1.
Hela1) The sun shone on us brightly.I parse it that "shone" is an intransitive verb and "on us" is an adverbial prep phrase.
the sun = subject : shone = intransitive verb ?
on us = adverbial of place ??? : brightly = adverbial of manner
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I must admit, "to be shone on by" sounds rare but idiomatic. Cf., from Ch. 10 of Brontë's The Professor:
"More obvious, more prominent, shone on by the full light of the large window, were the occupants of the benches just before me..."
MrP
"More obvious, more prominent, shone on by the full light of the large window, were the occupants of the benches just before me..."
MrP
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MrP
Thank you for correcting my parse. I myself checked on Gutenberg.org and I found Thomas Carlye's phrase "shone on by the everlasting Sun". So I have to admit that at least some speakers use "shine on" considering it a phrasal verb. But if all the people use "shine on" taking it as a phrasal verb, I wonder why so many people (about 100,000 pages online) put an adverb into "shine on" l
Thank you for correcting my parse. I myself checked on Gutenberg.org and I found Thomas Carlye's phrase "shone on by the everlasting Sun". So I have to admit that at least some speakers use "shine on" considering it a phrasal verb. But if all the people use "shine on" taking it as a phrasal verb, I wonder why so many people (about 100,000 pages online) put an adverb into "shine on" l
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Hi Paco,
Is the way to parse "on" in the above quotes is to see if it can separated from the verb by an adverb or not?
1) "shone on by the everlasting Sun". Here "shine" and "on" cannot be separated by an adverb so it is considered as a phrasal verb and “on” an adverb. (right?)
2) but as you said if we put an adverb into "shine on" like "The sun shone brightly on us" "sh
Is the way to parse "on" in the above quotes is to see if it can separated from the verb by an adverb or not?
1) "shone on by the everlasting Sun". Here "shine" and "on" cannot be separated by an adverb so it is considered as a phrasal verb and “on” an adverb. (right?)
2) but as you said if we put an adverb into "shine on" like "The sun shone brightly on us" "sh
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