1109: Complements Dec 22, 2017

Adjuncts, as discussed yesterday, are phrases that are not grammatically necessary. Nevertheless, an adjunct in one clause will not necessarily be an adjunct in another. For instance, in the sentence, "He found the salt on the table", "on the table" is an adjunct since the sentence would be grammatically complete as simply, "he found the salt", but if the verb were substituted for 'put', nothing would be unnecessary in "he put the salt on the table", because 'put' requires three arguments: a subject, a direct object, and an indirect object (a complement).

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