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539 Glossary for any unfamiliar terms

Adjuncts | 585

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Without a car you’ll never get there. 

(emphasises the problem of being carless)

A man in a white coat was making a drill a bit longer. 

Near him there stood an

intriguing railway carriage.

In this last example, typical of literary style, the adjunct is brought to the front of

the sentence to link it topically with something important in the sentence before

(the man in the white coat).

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473c Adjuncts

Manner, place and time adjuncts can also be used in mid position to emphasise

them. The emphasis is even stronger than when they are used in front position.

Mid position is particularly common in formal written texts and journalistic and

literary styles:

[about Mark Knopfler, the rock musician]

He 

has, 

in other ways,

become

an elder statesman of his profession. 

Paul Parker 

yesterday

chose

to join Manchester United.

I couldn’t stop thinking about the noise of the waterfall. It was a noise that

would never stop. It would always be roaring, even now it 

was, 

in the middle of

the night, all the days and all the nights,

shattering

itself down the sides of the

crevasse.