FINITE ADVERBIAL CLAUSES- what distinguishes finite adverbial clauses from the finite

clauses considered so far is that they take subordinating conjunctions as a complementiser,

rather than that. (after, before, until, since) (although, unless, if, because, once) There are
also word-sequences which take as a phrasal complementiser without further analysis (now
that, except that, as if, in case, in order, as soon as) Adjunct adverbials function as modifying
sisters of VP within VP, and disjuncts they will be analyzed as sentence modifiers. things
were rather boring after boys had departed.

★ post-modification: In English grammar, a postmodifier is a modifier that follows the word

or phrase it limits or qualifies. In this section, we look at just two of the categories that follow
the head noun within NOM; prepositional phrases and certain types of an adjective phrase.
1)Prepositional phrases- in the basic case PPs, in NP are analyzed as post-modifying
sisters of the head noun, within NOM.: like An invitation to the party. but we have to notice
that, within PP the NP that complements the preposition may in turn contain a post-
modifying PP a s in:
2)Adjective phrases- there is a small set of adjectives (which includes present, absent,
responsible, visible) which may pre-modify or post-modify the noun in NOM. Post-modifying
APs occupy the same position in the structure of NOM as post-modifying PPs.
Apart from such adjectives, there are two circumstances under which the general run
of adjectives must post-modify the noun:
- the APs considered so far have either contained no modification or have been PRE-
modified but APs may contain material following the head adjectives (Responsible for the
sauces, angry in his job.) when APs contain complementation of the adjective, they cannot
pre-modify nouns but must post-modify them. (A model happy in her job is a Godsend).
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FUNCTIONS OF THAT-CLAUSES:
subject - the subordinate that-clauses are functioning as the subject. A characteristic of
clauses functioning as the subject is that they can, as it were, be moved (or extraposed)
from under the NP node to the end of the sentence, leaving behind the pronoun it.
EXAMPLE: That Julia’s disguise was a disaster is undeniable.
a complement of a Vgp within VP- The judges have never noted (that) Anna had a weird
hairstyle. <- here is another example of a that-clause functioning as a direct object of a
transitive verb. That-clauses also functions as a direct object in the complementation of
ditransitive verbs in: She advised him (that) his underwear was hanging out. In addition to
functioning as direct objects in the complementation of the Vgp, that-clauses may function as
subject-predicatives in complementation to the intensive verb be. a complement of an A
within A P- Disappointed that we had not been chosen. <- as noted such AP, may
post-modify Ns within NP. In addition, they can function as subject-predicatives and
as object-predicatives Like PPs, clauses complementing an adjective are represented
as sisters of the adjective. a complement of an NwithinNP- The NP ->The fact that you
received no birthday wishes from David -> contains a that-clause functioning as a
complement of the N. An important feature of noun complement clauses- one that is
useful in distinguishing them from other clauses that can appear in NP-is that they
can complement only ABSTRACT nouns like the following fact, rumor, idea.