Adjunct (grammar)

This article is about adjuncts in linguistics. For the term used in the brewing of beer, see Adjunct (beer). For the type of professor, see Professor. In linguistics, an adjunct is a sentence element that establishes the circumstances in which the action or state expressed by the verb take place.The following sentence uses adjuncts of time and place:Yesterday Lorna saw the dog in the garden.This definition can be extended to include adjuncts that modify nouns or other parts of speech (see noun adjunct):The large dog in the garden is very friendly.
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