ABSTRACT
Adjuncts. IT will be our task now to inquire into the function of adjuncts : for what purpose or purposes are adjuncts added to primary words !
Various classes of adjuncts may here be distinguished. The most important of these undoubtedly is the one composed
of what may be called restrictive or qualifying adjuncea: their function is to restrict the primary, to limit the number of objects to which it may be applied; in other words, to specialize or define it. Thus red in a red rose restricts the applicability of the word rost to one particular sub-class of the whole class of roses, it specializes and defines the rose of which I am speaking by excluding white and yellow roses; and so in most other instances: Napoleon the third I a new book I Icelandic peasants I a poor widow, etc.
