Nalapoe
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- Dec 13, 2015
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- Native Language
- Arabic
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- Morocco
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- Morocco
Hello,
I would love to have some feedback on this, please. It's been bugging me for a while!
The sentence is: " Reading the newspaper, I was struck by the difference between fact and fiction. "
This is how I analysed it:
* "Reading the newspaper" is a participial clause acting as an adjective modifying "I", the subject.
This is the confusing part. "struck" seems to be an adjective to me, but it might as well be part of the verb, "was struck".. The problem is that, defining "was struck" will help me analyse the prepositional phrase "by the difference" .
If "struck" is an adjective, then "by the difference" is an adjective modifying struck. But, if "was struck" is a verb, then the prep. phrase cannot be an adjective since adjectives do not modify verbs. And according to my knowledge, there are two types of prepositional phrases, adjectives and adverbs. Following this respect, the prep. phrase is an adverb. If this is the case, then what kind of adverb is it?
What do you think?
I would love to have some feedback on this, please. It's been bugging me for a while!
The sentence is: " Reading the newspaper, I was struck by the difference between fact and fiction. "
This is how I analysed it:
* "Reading the newspaper" is a participial clause acting as an adjective modifying "I", the subject.
This is the confusing part. "struck" seems to be an adjective to me, but it might as well be part of the verb, "was struck".. The problem is that, defining "was struck" will help me analyse the prepositional phrase "by the difference" .
If "struck" is an adjective, then "by the difference" is an adjective modifying struck. But, if "was struck" is a verb, then the prep. phrase cannot be an adjective since adjectives do not modify verbs. And according to my knowledge, there are two types of prepositional phrases, adjectives and adverbs. Following this respect, the prep. phrase is an adverb. If this is the case, then what kind of adverb is it?
What do you think?