I never forget a face, but in your case ...

[Zhi You]

Hi Guys, I am trying to work my way through this sentence:

“I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.”

Ok so my thoughts are:

1. The first clause is just the independent main clause

2. The second clause is also an independent clause though it can be said to function as an adverbial of concession for the first clause, even though ‘but’ is not a subordinating conjunction.

3. ‘in your case’: is a prepositional phrase that functions as an adjective for ‘an exception’.

4. ‘I’ll’: ‘will’ is a modal verb that functions as the finite verb

5. ‘be’: is a bare infinitive.

6. ‘glad’: I don’t know how to classify this word. If it were the simple sentence ‘I am glad’ then ‘glad’ would just be the complement completing ‘I’. But in the sentence: I will be glad’, I am not sure how to classify the word ‘glad’.

7. ‘to make’: is an infinite verb though I can not deduce its role. Is it an adverb of condition for ‘will’, is it an adjective for ‘an exception, or is it fulfilling some other function.

8. ‘an exception’: is the object of the infinitive ‘to make’.

Please share your insights. Thanks a bunch.

 

[emsr2d2]

Before we continue, please tell us where you found the original sentence. You must cite the full source: the name of the publication/website and the name(s) of the author(s).

 

[Zhi You]

Verbals: Explanation and Examples

A verbal is a verb form that does not function as a verb but as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb. There are three types of verbal: gerunds, participles (past and present), and infinitives.

www.grammar-monster.com

 

[Zhi You]

https://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/verbals.htm

This is where I found the sentence . . Thanks

 

[emsr2d2]

https://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/verbals.htm

This is where I found the sentence. Thanks.

Maybe I'm going mad/blind/senile, but I've read that page three times and I cannot find the example sentence from post #1 anywhere!

 

[5jj]

You are not alone.

 

[Zhi You]

Maybe I'm going mad/blind/senile, but I've read that page three times and I cannot find the example sentence from post #1 anywhere!

 

[emsr2d2]

You should have told us that it was in a confirmatory test in the right-hand sidebar! I, and probably 5jj, simply read all those example sentences in the main article.

 

[5jj]

Guilty as charged.

 

[5jj]

Hi Guys, I am trying to work my way through this sentence:

“I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.”

Ok so my thoughts are:

1. The first clause is just the independent main clause

2. The second clause is also an independent clause

I'd say that you have two corresponding clauses there.

though it can be said to function as an adverbial of concession for the first clause, even though ‘but’ is not a subordinating conjunction.

That doesn't work for me.

 

[Zhi You]

Hi Guys

my updated analysis on this sentence:

“I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.”

1 “but”: introduces a contrast

2 “in your case”: adverbial {manner / degree} that sets the context

3 “glad”: adjective predicate completing ‘I’.

4 “to make an exception”: infinitive phrase acting as the adjective complement to ‘glad’.

Thanks

 

[emsr2d2]

Hi guys.

Here is my updated analysis on this sentence:

“I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.”

1. “but”: introduces a contrast.
2. “in your case”: adverbial {manner/degree} that sets the context.
3. “glad”: adjective predicate completing ‘I’.
4. “to make an exception”: infinitive phrase acting as the adjective complement to ‘glad’.

Thanks.

Please note my corrections above. You need to use a lot more full stops than you're currently using. Also, please don't refer to us here as "guys". We're not all male and we're not your mates. I've only left it above to show you that, when used correctly, it shouldn't be capitalised.

 

[Annabel Lee]

“I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.”

1 “but”: introduces a contrast

Yes, it does.

2 “in your case”: adverbial {manner / degree} that sets the context

"In your case" is a prepositional phrase here functioning as a fronted adverbial modifier of the verb phrase "make an exception" within the independent clause introduced by "but."

I'll be glad to make an exception in your case. --> In your case I'll be glad to make an exception.​

3 “glad”: adjective predicate completing ‘I’.

That's a strange way to put it, but you seem to have the idea. "Glad" is an adjective functioning as subject complement.

4 “to make an exception”: infinitive phrase acting as the adjective complement to ‘glad’.

You can say that "to make an exception" is a complement of the adjective "glad" or that it is an adverbial modifier of "glad." A "that"-clause could be used in other, related sentences, such as I will be glad that I made an exception.