The Thought Occurs

Thursday 10 April 2014

Conative Adjuncts

Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 507):
… Adjuncts in the clause may relate semantically to the conative component like hard, quickly in she tried hard to write well, she quickly learnt to tell them apart
There is no need in the analysis to tie these structurally to the primary verbal group; but it is useful to specify their function, by labelling them as ‘conative Adjunct’.