ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the linking adjuncts, a kind of element that is essential to the proposition. The term manner adjunct has a wider and a narrower sense. It also states that the nominal groups usually function as complements and not as adjuncts. Although the correspondence is not exact, manner adjuncts proper tend to be adverbial groups, while expressions of means and instrument are often prepositional. The most frequently given characterization of the element adjunct is that it can be left out without detriment to the structure remaining. The chapter also states that the nominal groups function as complements and not as adjuncts. But whether prepositional groups can function as complements is a question that is carefully avoided. Some grammarians take the criterion of componence as decisive: if it is a prepositional group it is not a complement but an adjunct. In the present analysis of English clauses the author allows prepositional groups to be complements.
