First Grammar Lessons: Part III, Lesson VI

Lesson VI

The predicate often has another part besides the object.

Words joined to the predicate to tell something about the action, as where or when it happens, or how it is done, are called adjuncts, a word which means joined to.

Henry, come here.
Henry, come now.
Come to me quickly.
Do it at once.

Here, now, quickly, at once, are adjuncts that show how, where, or when the action is done.

A predicate may have two or three adjuncts belonging to it, as:

Bring it here, carefully, to-morrow.

To be learnt.

Predicates may have adjuncts.

Adjuncts show something about the action, as how, where, or when it is done.

Exercise VI

1. Show which are the adjuncts in the following sentences:

Henry walks slowly.
The owl flew into the barn.
Yesterday the dog bit the man.
Mary is coming to-morrow morning.

2. Give six sentences with adjuncts to the following verbs:

writes, goes, sees, dances, swims, loves, as,—
The man sees the lion at once.

3. Make sentences with the following adjuncts:

Down the well, too fast, in the house, on the river, by the window, later on, this evening.

4. Give six sentences with predicates which have more than one adjunct, such as:

The child is crying bitterly in the road now.

5. Give six sentences with adjuncts showing ‘when?’

6. Give six sentences with adjuncts showing ‘where?’

7. Give six sentences with adjuncts showing ‘how?’

8. Point out all the adjuncts in a page of a book.