Using a Comma after a Fronted Adverbial Phrase or Clause home▸sitemap▸common errors ▸comma after a fronted adverbial When words that "set the scene" for the main part of the sentence appear at the front of the sentence, it is usual to follow them with a comma. For example: At...
If you have a fronted adverbial, use a comma. Don't use a comma if your adverbial is at the back. Use a comma before a conjunction (e.g.,and,or,but) that joins two independent clauses. I like tea but hate coffee. I like tea, butI hate coffee. ...
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As (5c) demonstrates, suo is well-formed even when the matrix verb and the embedded verb are each modified by an adverbial indicating a time frame. Furthermore, all the examples in (3)–(6) contain an embedded clause with its own subject. A Chinese example comparable to the French ...
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From the example above, we note that manner adverbs such as gidigidi‘hurriedly’ typically licensed in VPs as in (24a) may also be licensed in ANs as in (24b). The possibility of having adverbial modification in ANs as shown in (24b) points to the fact that these ANs contain underlyin...
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There may be some qualms about the correctness of this paraphrase: The original version seems to be about a certain proposition while the second does not refer to propositions at all; but here I’m not concerned with these 1 Here I am dealing exclusively with adverbial phrases that can be ...
While COs are known to modify the verb adverbially, the function of CIs has been often described with vague notions such as ‘emphasis’, ‘asseveration’, ‘contrast’, or ‘intensification’. Within the Arabic grammatical tradition, these two concepts have been traditionally studied as two ...
Thus, a root that typically functions as a verb can also function as an adverbial modifier, as in (16a–b) (examples are from Velázquez-Castillo 2004). Note the absence of the Per marker on the modifier, which shows that the VP* internal modifiers do not function as an independent ...