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Anonymous Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

To win

We were dominating the match and I felt as though we were going to go on to win.

Is "to win" an adjunct in the sentence above?

  

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anonymous Is "to win" an adjunct in the sentence above? Yes. As far as I know, an infinitive of result is always an adjunct.

— CalifJim

  • anonymous Is "to win" an adjunct in the sentence above?
  • Yes.
  • As far as I know, an infinitive of result is always an adjunct.
  • CJ
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anonymousIs "to win" an adjunct in the sentence above?

Yes. As far as I know, an infinitive of result is always an adjunct.

CJ

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anonymous

We were dominating the match and I felt as though we were going to go on to win.

Is "to win" an adjunct in the sentence above?

It is very tempting to classify the infinitival clause "to win" as a result adjunct, particularly as such adjuncts can be used to express a resultant or subsequent situation.

But here I think it's

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