Scott,
Klammer
et al. in Analyzing English Grammar discusses this particular
construction and notes that in addition to “happy” lists “glad,”
“sad,” “angry,” “hurt,” “confident,”
“doubtful,” “positive,” and past participles functioning
adjectively like “disappointed,” “distressed,”and “pleased”
take “noun phrases as adjective complements.” Pretty unusual stuff,
eh?
Marshall
Myers
Eastern
Kentucky University
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11:30 AM
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Subject: What kind of clause is
this?
What kind of clause is the underlined part
below? I think it is an adverbial clause modifying happy. Is this
reasonable? Are there other reasonable analyses? The boy was very happy that his mother did not
see him being such a pig. Thanks, Scott Woods |
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