Timeline for "A Thai youth soccer team were found alive Monday" Why is an adjective "alive" following a verb "found"? or "found alive" is an idiom?
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| Aug 25, 2018 at 13:38 | comment | added | BillJ | Because it's not part of the NP constituent, "A Thai youth soccer team and its coach", but part of the VP, hence an adjunct in clause structure. A predicand is what a complement or adjunct relates to. | |
| Aug 25, 2018 at 11:20 | comment | added | TimR | I do not understand what you mean by "does not modify the predicand ... but simply refers to it". | |
| Aug 25, 2018 at 7:50 | history | answered | BillJ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |