Timeline for What clause element is this please?
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| Jan 1, 2019 at 20:56 | comment | added | Fox12 | Okay :) I am just a student of syntax, sorry. Learning new things every day. | |
| Jan 1, 2019 at 20:53 | comment | added | Lambie | @PetrKment "I think it modifies she". There is no such thing. Why are you arguing about that? Adjectives do not modify these personal pronouns: I, you, he, she, it, we, they. The phrase with ready is in apposition to: "she got into her car".It can also be a truncated and implied: She got into her car [and was] ready for x. There are several ways to look at it. In other words, an implied compound predicate. get into the car and be ready. | |
| Jan 1, 2019 at 20:33 | comment | added | Fox12 | Well some adjectives can go strictly before nouns and some strictly after them, right? Adjectives can modify personal pronouns. In addition, "she" is a syntactic noun in this case, I believe. "Ready" is an adjective that can only follow the word it modifies, it cannot precede it. | |
| Jan 1, 2019 at 16:22 | comment | added | Lambie | ready has to describe a person or state. An adjective does not modify a personal pronoun. You can't really say: a ready she. She was ready. | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 18:11 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | @PetrKment Arguably, it could also be acting adverbially, describing how she got into the car ("in readiness for"). But it's ambiguous. (However, it acting adjectivally is more likely because of how it's constructed: "she was ready.") There is no reason why it can't modify her adjectivally—there's no rule that says something must come immediately after something else. | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 17:34 | comment | added | Fox12 | Thanks, which word does it modify then, please? I think it modifies "she", but it does not follow it directly, so I am confused. | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 17:22 | history | answered | Lambie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |