The Attribute
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 634.
The attribute is a secondary part of the sentence which qualifies a noun, a pronoun, or any other part of speech that has a nominal character.
| Ways of expressing the attribute | ||
| 1. | adjective | This big girl is very lazy. He seems a very silent, awkward lad. |
| 2. | pronoun (possessive, defining, demonstrative, interrogative, relative) | His shrewd eyes had lost none of their clear shining. Here's some money for you. |
| 3. | numeral (cardinal or ordinal) | He arrived just three weeks ago. He has always been the first boy in his class. |
| 4. | noun a) in the common case | It happened on a December evening. The garden wall was almost ruined. |
| b) in the genitive case | Her father's nerves would never stand the disclosure. He was a man of regular habits. | |
| 5. | prepositional phrase | The impressions of six years are not got over in such a space of time. The letter from her sister reassured her. |
| 6. | adverb a) in pre-position | In the light of after events one cannot but sympathized with them. |
| b) in post-position | The room above is large and light. The man there is my brother. | |
| 7. | Participle I and II or participial phrase | I think it is only a passing shower. On the opposite side of the destroyed church is a fine avenue of trees. |
| 8. | A prepositional phrase or a prepositional construction with a gerund | She hated the idea of borrowing and living on credit. |
| 9. | infinitive, an infinitive phrase, or construction | He was not a man to experiment with acquaintance. |
| 10. | quotation groups | It was a ‘You- must- take- us- as- you- find- us' attitude to things, and it saved me a lot of trouble. |
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| The Object | | | Ex. 24. Point out the attribute and say by what it is expressed. |