Forms and Domains
An adjunct can be a single word, a phrase, or an entire clause.
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- Single word
- She will leave tomorrow.
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- Phrase
- She will leave in the morning.
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- Clause
- She will leave after she has had breakfast.
Most discussions of adjuncts focus on adverbial adjuncts, that is, on adjuncts that modify verbs, verb phrases, or entire clauses like the adjuncts in the three examples just given. Adjuncts can appear in other domains, however, that is, they can modify most categories. Thus one can have ad-nominal adjuncts, ad-adjectival adjuncts, ad-adverb adjuncts, etc.
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- the discussion before the game -
- very happy -
- too loudly -
Adjuncts are always constituents. Each of the adjuncts in the examples throughout this article is a constituent.
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