Timeline for Where do I place an adjunct in a sentence?
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| Sep 30, 2022 at 5:01 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Aug 23, 2022 at 13:35 | comment | added | Luke Sawczak | @MSalters Ah, I misparsed the sentence. You're right: with the comma, we delay the object. This is plausible but stumped me enough that I instead parsed it as a regular sentence plus a clarification, as you noted. | |
| Aug 23, 2022 at 13:26 | comment | added | MSalters | @LukeSawczak: I'm pretty sure there has to be, else the pronoun "it" becomes ungrammatical. As I pointed out in my first comment, "it" refers to "the topic". In your example, the sentence would end '... about it, about the topic". That would be a transcription of a speaker correcting himself, noticing that used pronoun "it" wasn't introduced yet. To fix that error, the speaker rewords the end of the sentence. | |
| Aug 23, 2022 at 13:24 | answer | added | Jeff Morrow | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 23, 2022 at 13:17 | comment | added | Luke Sawczak | In the second sentence there should be no comma after "talks" | |
| Aug 23, 2022 at 13:14 | comment | added | MSalters | The pronoun "it" has refers to "the topic", which in the second case follows the pronoun. That's at least unusual. I don't get your SVO question. The subject is "He", which is directly followed by the verb "talks". Clearly that makes it SVO, not VSO. | |
| Aug 23, 2022 at 13:05 | history | asked | Hans Mustermann | CC BY-SA 4.0 |