Timeline for Prepositional phrase modify
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| Apr 5, 2019 at 12:13 | comment | added | jessie | Thanks, I think I am getting a better understanding of it :) | |
| Apr 5, 2019 at 12:10 | comment | added | SamBC | @jessie That one is semantically ambiguous, because "in the room" could apply to the bag or the boy. Given that, I would tend to read it as applying to "the bag" rather than the boy. Also, those are adjectivals, not complements; they describe the things, rather than completing their meaning. | |
| Apr 5, 2019 at 11:59 | comment | added | jessie | Thanks again, cause when I was approaching the sentence, I was using a more simple sentence to help me understand the structure, but seems like it's quite different.EX: "The boy with a bag in the room is reading" , in this case, both "with a bag" and "in the room" will be the complement of the boy, is this correct? | |
| Apr 5, 2019 at 10:30 | comment | added | SamBC | @Jessie: complements will generally be closest to the noun they are complementing, it's tight binding. If there weren't another noun in between, and you just had "decline to a specific stimulus", then you could parse it as a complement and it wouldn't be semantically valid. It would be more likely that people would parse it as decline being a verb, as decline to is usually a catenative use of to decline, but then that would fail to make sense (or parse properly) either. It would just confuse people. | |
| Apr 5, 2019 at 10:10 | comment | added | jessie | Thank you, i will study the provided site :) By the way , can I bother with one more question. Can one argue that "a specific stimulus" can be a complement of "decline"(linked by "to") , but semantically wouldn't make much sense? | |
| Apr 5, 2019 at 10:02 | vote | accept | jessie | ||
| Apr 5, 2019 at 9:58 | history | edited | SamBC | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 5, 2019 at 9:56 | comment | added | SamBC | @jessie: I'm afraid that I don't know much about sites for learners, being a native speaker, but there's a brief explanation of complements of nouns here: englishgrammar.org/complements-verbs-nouns-adjectives | |
| Apr 5, 2019 at 2:31 | comment | added | jessie | Thank you , this is the site I visited when learning PP phrase (grammar-monster.com/glossary/prepositional_phrase.htm), it didn't mention anything about complement when introducing the function of PP phrases. Do you recommend this website and is there a better website for english learner for learning PP phrase? | |
| Apr 4, 2019 at 20:18 | history | answered | SamBC | CC BY-SA 4.0 |