Constituents - Zinsdelen
Attributive adjunct - Bijvoeglijke bepaling
Attributive adjuncts give extra information about nouns or noun groups. They can be >>adjectives, prepositional phrases or relative clauses.
Look at the following sentences:
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[Het [roodharige] meisje] was Hannie Schaft.
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The red-headed girl was Hannie Schaft.
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[Het meisje [met het rode haar]] was Hannie Schaft.
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The girl with the red hair was Hannie Schaft.
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[Het meisje [dat rood haar had]] heette Hannie Schaft.
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The girl who had red hair, was Hannie Schaft.
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In all three sentences the subject has been placed inside square brackets. Within each subject there is an attributive adjunct (within another set of brackets) which offers additional information about the 'the girl':
- in the first sentence it is a single adjective, roodharige;
- in the second sentence it is the prepositional phrase met het rode haar;
- and in the third sentence it is a >relative clause: dat rood haar had (it starts with the >>relative pronoun dat).
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