PREDICATIVE
ADJUNCTS
A predicative adjunct tells you something about two other sentence
elements, those being:
§
The predicate
§
The subject or the object
Usually a predicative adjunct will consist out of an adjective, but it
may also consist out of a noun or a prepositional group/
Examples:
§
De
leden van het team vonden hem een klier.
The members of the team thought him to be a
pain in the neck.
(een
klier says something about vonden (predicate) and hem (object))
§
Hij
stampte de appels tot moes.
He mashed the apples
to mash.
(tot moes says something about stampte (predicate) and de appels
(object))
§
Drijfnat
kwam
hij gisteren thuis.
He came home
extremely wet the other day
(drijfnat
says something about kwam (predicate) and hij (subject))
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