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Categories: Syntactic entities

adjunct Adjunct note Adjunct notes adjunctive adnominal

A construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence WordNet 3.0

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A construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In linguistics, an adjunct is an optional, or structurally dispensable, part of a sentence, clause, or phrase that, if removed or discarded, will not structurally affect the remainder of the sentence. Wikipedia

Words used as modifiers Wikipedia Disambiguation

Phrase that can be removed, preserving grammatical correctness Wikidata

A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while" in "I typed for a while". Wiktionary

IS A

construction

adverbial

clause

HAS KIND

parenthetical expression

disjunct

WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

adjunct