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Sentence: She placed the cat ON THE COUCH
I'm studying from Manhattan GMAT SC book. It says
1) If the modifier answers a question about the noun, it's a noun modifier.
2) If the modifier answers a question about the action, it's an adverbial modifier.
The modifier "ON THE COUCH" answers two questions.
1) Where is the cat? ON THE COUCH (Noun modifier)
2) Where did she place the cat? ON THE COUCH (Adverbial Modifier)
Is it possible for a propositional phrase to be both? Or my understanding of them is wrong? Please clarify.
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I'm studying from Manhattan GMAT SC book. It says
1) If the modifier answers a question about the noun, it's a noun modifier.
2) If the modifier answers a question about the action, it's an adverbial modifier.
The modifier "ON THE COUCH" answers two questions.
1) Where is the cat? ON THE COUCH (Noun modifier)
2) Where did she place the cat? ON THE COUCH (Adverbial Modifier)
Is it possible for a propositional phrase to be both? Or my understanding of them is wrong? Please clarify.
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To be honest, this is kind of an incorrect way to start thinking about Modifiers. The job of a modifier in a sentence is to describe; any part of a sentence (verb, phrase, clause) that describes any other part of the sentence is a modifier.
In the sentence "She placed the cat on the couch" the phrase "on the couch" does not describe the cat, it does not describe the manner of placing, it doesn't describe anything. In this case, it is simply the object of the sentence.
In fact, most prepositional phrases are simply objects, since they are often noun phrases that are not doing an action in a sentence.
Rather than looking at whether something is answered or not, you wanna instead ask yourself what entity/action is being described here. As it is, the GMAT does not require you different between adjective and adverb modifiers, it only asks you to make sure that the descriptor/modifier is describing/modifying the noun or noun phrase or verb or clause that it logically should describe within the sentence.
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In the sentence "She placed the cat on the couch" the phrase "on the couch" does not describe the cat, it does not describe the manner of placing, it doesn't describe anything. In this case, it is simply the object of the sentence.
In fact, most prepositional phrases are simply objects, since they are often noun phrases that are not doing an action in a sentence.
Rather than looking at whether something is answered or not, you wanna instead ask yourself what entity/action is being described here. As it is, the GMAT does not require you different between adjective and adverb modifiers, it only asks you to make sure that the descriptor/modifier is describing/modifying the noun or noun phrase or verb or clause that it logically should describe within the sentence.
- Matoo
