Saturday, December 27, 2014 8:01 AM by Hela
Dear teachers,Would you please tell me what is considered an obligatory adverbial?
Do you think that an adverbial that changes the meaning of a sentence if omitted is considered obligatory? Examples :
1] He saw the movie twice on Saturday.
2] Yesterday was the happiest day of the year for me.
3] The news about your illness reached me very late.
4] Will they be able to move the belongings by themselves?
Are "twice", "for me", "very late" and "by themselves" considered obligatory or not?
Thank you for your help and I wish you all a merry Christmas.
Saturday, December 27, 2014 8:22 AM by Mister Micawber
From good ol' Wikipedia:Adverbials are typically divided into four classes:
adverbial complements [i.e. obligatory adverbial]: adverbials that render a sentence ungrammatical and meaningless if removed. John put the flowers in a vase.
adjuncts: these are part of the core meaning of the sentence, but if omitted still leave a meaningful sentence.
John and Sophia helped me with my homework.
conjuncts: these link two sentences together.
John helped so I was, therefore, able to do my homework.
disjuncts: these make comments on the meaning of the rest of the sentence.
Surprisingly, he passed all of his exams.
According to that, none of your examples show obligatory adverbs; they are all adjuncts.
Saturday, December 27, 2014 8:22 AM by Mister Micawber
From good ol' Wikipedia:Adverbials are typically divided into four classes:
adverbial complements [i.e. obligatory adverbial]: adverbials that render a sentence ungrammatical and meaningless if removed. John put the flowers in a vase.
adjuncts: these are part of the core meaning of the sentence, but if omitted still leave a meaningful sentence.
John and Sophia helped me with my homework.
conjuncts: these link two sentences together.
John helped so I was, therefore, able to do my homework.
disjuncts: these make comments on the meaning of the rest of the sentence.
Surprisingly, he passed all of his exams.
According to that, none of your examples show obligatory adverbs; they are all adjuncts.
Friday, February 22, 2019 6:49 AM by patimo
How obligatory and optional adverbials can be indicated in a sentenceFriday, February 22, 2019 6:52 AM by patimo
What is meaning
Friday, February 22, 2019 6:55 AM by CalifJim
patimoWhat is meaning
See //en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/meaning
CJ
Friday, February 22, 2019 7:17 AM by CalifJim
patimo How can obligatory and optional adverbials can be indicated in a sentence?
They are not indicated in a sentence. "obligatory adverbial" is a grammatical term used to describe adverbials which must be present in a sentence in order to make a sentence correct. This information is not indicated in the sentence itself.
She put the flowers in a vase.
in a vase is an obligatory adverbial because She put the flowers is not a correct sentence, but there is nothing in the sentence that tells you that an expression like in a vase is obligatory. You know that only if you know English grammar, specifically how the verb put works.
CJ