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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
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They made it perfectly clear

They made it perfectly clear they were not willing to accept a partial solution.

Is "it" a dummy direct object and they were not willing to accept a partial solution an extraposed object in the sentence above?

Is "perfectly clear" an adverb phrase and modifier of the predicator "made" in that sentence?

  

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anonymous Is "it" a dummy direct object and they were not willing to accept a partial solution an extraposed object in the sentence above? I would say it's "( that ) they were not willing to accept a partial solution ", but yes. anonymous Is "perfectly clear" an adverb phrase and modifier of the predicator "made" in that sentence?

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anonymousIs "it" a dummy direct object and they were not willing to accept a partial solution an extraposed object in the sentence above?

I would say it's "(that) they were not willing to accept a partial solution", but yes.

anonymousIs "perfectly clear" an adverb phrase and modifier of the predicator "made" in that