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Whatever happened to subjuncts?
Back in 1985 when Randolph Quirk et al. published their "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language" they introduced four subcategories of the "adverbial" function: "adjunct", "disjunct", "conjunct" and "subjunct". The first three seem to be alive and well, but most authors I have read (with the notable exception of David Crystal) seem to ignore "subjunct". Anyone got any idea why this is?
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John Sheard schrieb: [nq:1]Back in 1985 when Randolph Quirk et al. published their "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language" they introduced four ... have read (with the notable exception of David Crystal) seem to ignore "subjunct".
- John Sheard schrieb: [nq:1]Back in 1985 when Randolph Quirk et al.
- published their "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language" they introduced four ...
- have read (with the notable exception of David Crystal) seem to ignore "subjunct".
- [/nq] Could you please provide some examples of subjunct usage?
- Cheers Michael It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
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John Sheard schrieb:
[nq:1]Back in 1985 when Randolph Quirk et al. published their "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language" they introduced four ... have read (with the notable exception of David Crystal) seem to ignore "subjunct". Anyone got any idea why this is?[/nq]
Could you please provide some examples of subjunct usage?
Cheers
Michael
It's silly talking
[nq:1]Back in 1985 when Randolph Quirk et al. published their "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language" they introduced four ... have read (with the notable exception of David Crystal) seem to ignore "subjunct". Anyone got any idea why this is?[/nq]
Could you please provide some examples of subjunct usage?
Cheers
Michael
It's silly talking
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Well, according to Quirk et al. subjuncts are the words/phrases I've put in capitals in the following quotations:
You JUST can't believe a word he says.
ONLY her sister visited her in hospital.
She won't mind IN THE SLIGHTEST.
LOOKED AT POLITICALLY the proposal seems dangerous.
WEATHERWISE, the outlook is dismal.
She KINDLY offered me her seat.
You JUST can't believe a word he says.
ONLY her sister visited her in hospital.
She won't mind IN THE SLIGHTEST.
LOOKED AT POLITICALLY the proposal seems dangerous.
WEATHERWISE, the outlook is dismal.
She KINDLY offered me her seat.
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