Primary and secondary parts of the speech

EXAMPLES:

• The baby smiled. (Here the attribute of the subject baby is the definite article the.)
• Fresh milk is wholesome. (Here the attribute is the adjective ‘fresh’.)
• His voice shook. (Here the attribute is the possessive adjective his.)
• Kennedy, President of America, was assassinated. (Here the attribute is a noun phrase used in apposition to the subject.)
• He himself said this. (Here the attribute is an emphatic pronoun.)
• A rolling stone gathers no moss. (Attribute – participle)
• Birds of the same feather flock together. (Attribute – a prepositional phrase)
• His will to live pulled him through the difficult times. (Attribute – an infinitive)

ADVERBIAL MODIFIER

• The Adverbial Modifier is a secondary part of the sentence which modifies a verb, an adjective or an adverb.
• According to their meaning we distinguish the following kinds of adverbial modifiers. 1.The adverbial modifier of time. a) Adverbial modifiers of definite time usually stand at the very end of the sentence. (at the very beginning before the subject). Ex:On Monday nights it was closed.
• b) Adverbial modifiers of indefinite time usually stand before the main verb of the predicate. Ex:…he never fought except in the gym.
• 2. The adverbial modifier of frequency. Ex: One night a week it was the dancing — club.
• 3. The adverbial modifier of place and direction. They usually stand after the predicate or after the object. Ex: The dancing — club was in the Rue de la Montagne Sainte Genevieve.

4. The adverbial modifier of manner. Ex: I drank a beer, standing in the doorway and getting the cool breath of wind from the street.

• 4. The adverbial modifier of manner. Ex: I drank a beer, standing in the doorway and getting the cool breath of wind from the street.
• 5. The adverbial modifier of attendant circumstances. Ex:She looked up, very bright-eyed and trying to talk inconsequentially.
• 6. The adverbial modifier of degree and measure. They usually stand before the words they modify. Ex:He had a lot of money on his last book, and was going to make a lot more.
• 7. The adverbial modifier of cause. Ex:As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock.
• 8. The adverbial modifier of result (consequence). Ex:I would like to have it illuminated to hang in the office.
• 9. The adverbial modifier of condition. Ex:She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes.