Qingqing Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
a predicative or an attributive?
In the sentence, "After the fire, very little remained of my house." "of my house" is a predicative or an attributive of "very little"?
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" "of my house" is a predicative or an attributive of "very little After the fire = temporal adjunct (time adverbial phrase) little = subject (noun) very = modifies the subject, an attributive adjective. After the fire ... remained of my house = predicate remained = verb of my house is a prep phrase, and an adjectival (modifies the subject = noun) predicative ( it is in the predicate) of the subject .
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After the fire, very little remained of my house." "of my house" is a predicative or an attributive of "very little
After the fire = temporal adjunct (time adverbial phrase)
little = subject (noun)
very = modifies the subject, an attributive adjective.
After the fire ... remained of my house = predicate
rema
After the fire = temporal adjunct (time adverbial phrase)
little = subject (noun)
very = modifies the subject, an attributive adjective.
After the fire ... remained of my house = predicate
rema
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I often see "of + abstract noun" or "of /age/colour..." used as a predicative. eg.
1. What is happening is of great importance to us.
2. The towers were exactly of the same height.
Can anyone give me more examples like the sentence we have discussed?
1. What is happening is of great importance to us.
2. The towers were exactly of the same height.
Can anyone give me more examples like the sentence we have discussed?
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