Adjunct (grammar)

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title: Adjunct (grammar)
text: In linguistics, an adjunct is an optional, or structurally dispensable, part of a sentence, clause, or phrase that, if removed or discarded, will not structurally affect the remainder of the sentence. Example: In the sentence John helped Bill in Central Park, the phrase in Central Park is an adjunct. A more detailed definition of the adjunct emphasizes its attribute as a modifying form, word, or phrase that depends on another form, word, or phrase, being an element of clause structure with adver
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description: Phrase that can be removed, preserving grammatical correctness
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date created: 2003-11-14T12:01:21Z
date modified: 2024-09-07T09:27:10Z
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