Thursday, December 28, 2017

syntactic analysis - What does "travelling at high speed" in "Look out for the car travelling at high speed" function as?




Is there a term used to refer to the following parts of these sentences (in bold):




Look out for the car travelling at high speed.




Catch me coming in hot.




I'm not sure if these can be considered adjectival clauses or if there's a better terminology for it.


Answer



In the first sentence, it functions as an adjective (answering the question which car to look for). It is referred to as a participial phrase.



See:




Purdue



As to whether it is better to call it an adjectival phrase or a participial phrase, I would pick the latter since both its adjectival role and verbal category are specified.


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