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BMO
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:23 pm Post subject: All about adverb - "certainly" |
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1. Certainly, you are beautiful. ---- Certainly is an adverb modifying the entire sentence "you are beautiful."
2. You are certainly beautiful. --- Beautiful is a subject compliment, an adjective predicate? Certainly modifies beautiful.
3. You are certainly a beautiful girl. A beautiful girl is a subject compliment, a noun predicate? Cetainly modifies "a beautiful girl."
Would you shed some lights?
Thanks.
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helen1
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:58 am Post subject: |
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1. Certainly, you are beautiful. ---- Certainly is an adverb modifying the entire sentence "you are beautiful." |
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2. You are certainly beautiful. --- Beautiful is a subject compliment, an adjective predicate? Certainly modifies beautiful. |
certainly beautiful is the subject complement
Certainly is an adverb here adding emphasis to 'beautiful'
In order to be predicative, and adjective needs to occur alone e.g. You are tall
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3. You are certainly a beautiful girl. A beautiful girl is a subject compliment, a noun predicate? Cetainly modifies "a beautiful girl." |
A very basic definition of a predicate is 'everything in a sentence after the subject'
Therefore here 'are certainly a beautiful girl' is the predicate
'certainly a beautiful girl' is the subject complement - as 'certainly' is adding emphasis to the noun phrase 'a beautiful girl'
Hope this helps
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BMO
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks. Do you think in #3, certainly is modifying ARE?
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