Help with English Grammar
POSTED BY: boris
UPDATED: Thursday, September 4, 2008 02:36
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Hey if anyone out there is any good at English Syntax...In the sentence: "Mary put the bouquet of roses on the coffee table" is "on the coffee table", an adjunct, object compliment, indirect object, or something I haven't considered? Any help would be appreciated as I need to understand this stuff by next week's syntax inclass. thanks in advance
Rose(aka Boris)
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I think it is a prepositional phrase (?)
It isn't a compement or an object.
Sorry, I can discuss Beowolf in detail but I can't diagram a sentence to save me freakin life!
I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"
FORSAKEN original
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi
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yeah that's what I thought too...but our lecturer is asking us to put it into the other categories...personally i think he's messing with us...thanks for your help :-)
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well "on" could be an adverb, but not in this context.
Let me know what the answer is!
I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"
FORSAKEN original
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi
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I cornered my teacher/torturer into giving me some direction...we are treating it as a prepositional phrase behaving as a post modifier for a Verb phrase...in past times it would have been classified as an adverbial, but apparently that is a grammatic function that is no longer used. grrrr syntax....thanks again for your help
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