references for Grammar Glossary entry: “adjuncts”

• The following sections of A Comprehensive Grammar of The English Language (Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartik, Longman, London & New York, 1985) were consulted in preparing this entry:

• Introduction (Adverbials)

§ 8.1,  478

• Adjuncts

§ 8.25   504-505

• Subcategories of adjunct

§8.26   505

• Obligatory predication adjuncts

§§8.27-8.33   505-510

• Optional predication adjuncts

§8.34   510

• Position of predication adjuncts

§8.35   511

• Sentence adjuncts

§§8.36-8.38   511-514

further notes:

1. As the authors of CGEL point out in §8.25, 504-5, the similarity of adjuncts to other sentence elements is reflected in their ability to act as the focus of a cleft sentence; as “contrasts” in alternative interrogation or negation; and as the focus of focusing subjuncts