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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Subject complement

The German government has resisted wooing by London lately, insistent that there would be no negotiations without Britain officially triggering article 50.

What is the syntactic function of the adjective phrase insistent that there would be no negotiations without Britain officially triggering article 50 in the sentence above? Is it the subject complement?
  

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Anonymous What is the syntactic function of the adjective phrase insistent that there would be no negotiations without Britain officially triggering article 50 in the sentence above? Its function is to provide a secondary predicate for "the German government". , and they have been insistent that ...

  • Anonymous What is the syntactic function of the adjective phrase insistent that there would be no negotiations without Britain officially triggering article 50 in the sentence above?
  • Its function is to provide a secondary predicate for "the German government".
  • , and they have been insistent that ...
  • .
  • The function is equivalent to the function of the nearly identical participle clause insisting that there would be ...
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AnonymousWhat is the syntactic function of the adjective phrase insistent that there would be no negotiations without Britain officially triggering article 50 in the sentence above?
Its function is to provide a secondary predicate for "the German government". They have resisted ..., and they have been insistent that ....
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Thank you, CJ, for the explanation.
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Thank you, CJ, for the explanation.

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