Often many of these modifiers are not strictly necessary to complete the sense and a period may be inserted at some point before the close of the sentence without destroying its grammatical completeness.
A loose sentence is one in which words follow each other in their natural order, the modifiers of the verb of course following the verb.
A very careful writer will so place the modifiersof a verb that the reader will not mistake the meaning.
The definite article is repeated before each of two modifiers of the same noun, when the purpose is to call attention to the noun expressed and the one understood.
The modifiersand independent elements will be discussed in detail in Secs.
Most of the words how to be considered are capable of a double use,--they may be pure modifiers of nouns, or they may stand for nouns.
Of the modifiers that form expressions of indefinite quantity all except máy precede as conjunctive attributes; for examples see § 69 f.
Of the modifiersof indefinite quantity (§ 69) several are used as static predicates: Sya y walá na.
B) In the circumlocutory definite object predicate the central element is the pronoun siyà (in this use never enclitic), which is followed by modifiers which express the real content of the predicate.
Adjective clauses+ are very common asmodifiers of substantive complements (cf.
The length of this sentence is due partly to its compound predicate, partly to the modifier (and modifiers of the modifier) attached to the noun Dumbarton Castle.
All adjectives are adjective modifiers, but all adjective modifiers are not adjectives.
This sentence is lengthened by means of a series of infinitives used as adverbial modifiers of the complement disposed (a participle used as an adjective).
The use of subordinate clauses as complements and modifiers, and as modifiers of complements and of modifiers, may produce sentences of great length and complicated structure.
Adverbial clauses oftenest modify verbs, but they are also common as modifiers of adjectives and adverbs.
A simple sentence may have a +compound subject or predicate+ (or both), and may also include a number of modifiers and complements.
When there are a number of adverbial modifiers in a sentence, they should be distributed over the sentence; as, At the request of my father, I gladly left my studies, to accompany him.
A participle qualifies a noun or pronoun, like an adjective, and takesmodifiers like a verb.
Therefore he wraps himself in congenial mystery, and both his root numbers and his modifiers must be taken on faith.
Bring related modifiers together: When he has prepared his lessons, he will come, as soon as he can put on his old clothes.
By making the stock uniform for all of its factors--chief factors and modifiers alike.
In fact, many or all Mendelian factors that affect the same organ may be said to be modifiers of each other's effects.
The method does not claim to prove that modifiersare present, but it shows why certain results are in harmony with that expectation and can not be accounted for on the basis that a factor has changed.
This condition arose at a single step and breeds true, although it appears to be influenced to some extent by temperature, also by modifiers that sometimes appear in the stock.
While it has the modifiers and complements of a verb, it at the same time has the uses of a noun.
Any word that alone or with its modifiers calls to mind a single idea, is a term.
The word-groups which are used asmodifiers are the phrase and the clause.
Elizabeth's and Raleigh aremodifiers of the subject; the first word telling whose favorite is meant, the second what favorite.
Expand these possessive and explanatory modifiers into adjective clauses:-- 1.
The complement with all its modifiersis called the +Modified Complement.
Observing this order, write four sentences, two with possessive modifiers and two with explanatory, each sentence containing an adjective.
The, cold, and November are modifiers of the subject.
Under the latter are drawn the lines which represent the modifiers of the principal word.
So place phrase modifiers that there can be no doubt as to what yon intend them to modify.
The predicate with its modifiers is called the +Modified Predicate+.
Contract these sentences by omitting the repeated modifiers and prepositions, and all the conjunctions except the last:-- 1.
As modifiers are joined by slanting lines to the words they modify, you learn from this diagram that that touch pitch is a modifier of they.
We may join a word to one of these modifiers and say, The leaves fall very quietly.
Many writers set off such explanatory or slightly parenthetical modifiers by parentheses, as illustrated in Sentence 12-2; other writers use dashes for this purpose.
Our illustrative sentence is from the work of Mr. Teall, who explains that the colon is used because of the modifiers following the name of the persons: 95.
A clause; and then use these three modifiers in three separate sentences.
These words gracefully, immediately, and homeward are modifiers of the predicate.
The teacher may suggest predicates, and require the pupils to find as many appropriate modifiers as they can.
Here and elsewhere all modifiers are joined to their principal words by slanting lines.
The complement with all its modifiers is called the +Modified Complement+.
We treat these words as phrase modifiers without the preposition.
Words used to modify the predicate of a sentence and those used to modify modifiers belong to one class, or one part of speech, and are called +Adverbs+.
The Predicate with its modifiers is called the +Modified Predicate+.
Let the following modifiers be written on the board as the pupil suggests them.
Under the latter, are placed the little slanting lines standing for the modifiers of the principal word.
As all modifiers are joined by slanting lines, to the words they modify, you learn from this diagram that who is wise is a modifier of man.
The word A and the clause, who is wise, are modifiers of the subject.
We have here prepared the foundations of sentences which you are to complete by writing two or more suitable modifiers to each subject.
As a rule modifiers should be kept close to the words, clauses, or phrases which they modify, but due regard should be given to sense and to ease of expression.
It may be modified by an adverb or an adverb phrase, but when you leave off these modifiers you still have complete sense.
Find all of themodifiers of the subject and all of the modifiers of the predicate, and draw a single line under the complete subject and two lines under the complete predicate.
There may be othermodifiers also, as adverbs or adverb phrases, and all of these taken together form the complete predicate in the sentences where you have used an incomplete verb.
When we use a phrase as a predicate complement, it, too, may havemodifiers and more than one phrase may be used.
Exercise 5 Fill the blanks in the following sentences with a noun and its modifiers used as predicate complement.
So adjectives are modifiers of the nouns and pronouns to which they are added because they modify or qualify or limit the meaning of the noun or pronoun.
You will see at a glance, without thinking about it consciously, the subject and the predicate and the modifiers in the sentence.
The modifiers of the subject are either adjectives or adjective phrases.
Locate all the modifiers of the subjects and predicates, and determine the part of speech of each word in the sentence.
A pronoun may be used as the subject of a sentence+, for the pronoun is a word used in place of the noun; and a pronoun used as the subject of a sentence may have modifiersjust as a noun.
It may have a number of modifiers, but when we strip away thesemodifiers we can usually find a noun which is the subject of the sentence.
All of the other words which comprise the complete subject are the modifiers of this noun, or modifiers of its modifiers.
How very little real respect for the opinions of Murray, has been entertained by these self-seeking magnifiers and modifiers of his work!
Except Comly, the numerous modifiers of Murray's Grammar are none of them more consistent, on this point, than was Murray himself.
This silence is sufficiently accounted for by Murray's; of whose work, most of the authors who have any such rule, are either piddling modifiers or servile copyists.
So we see that this grammarian and Kirkham, both modifiers of Murray, understand their master's false verb "require" very differently.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modifiers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
