Adjunct vs Modifier - What's the difference?
adjunct | modifier |
An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
* Shakespeare
A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
(grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while" in "I typed for a while".
(rhetoric) Symploce.
(dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
(music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
(syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
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Connected in a subordinate function.
* Shakespeare
Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
One who, or that which, modifies.
(grammar) A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase.
In grammar terms the difference between adjunct and modifier
is that adjunct is a dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while" in "I typed for a while" while modifier is a word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase.As nouns the difference between adjunct and modifier
is that adjunct is an appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity while modifier is one who, or that which, modifies.As an adjective adjunct
is connected in a subordinate function.adjunct
English
(wikipedia adjunct)Noun
(en noun)- Learning is but an adjunct to our self.
- (Wotton)
- We can see from (34) that Determiners are sisters of N-bar and daughters of
N-double-bar; Adjuncts' are both sisters and daughters of N-bar; and Comple-
ments are sisters of N and daughters of N-bar. This means that '''Adjuncts''' re-
semble Complements in that both are daughters of N-bar; but they differ from
Complements in that '''Adjuncts''' are sisters of N-bar, whereas Complements are
sisters of N. Likewise, it means that '''Adjuncts''' resemble Determiners in that
both are sisters of N-bar, but they differ from Determiners in that ' Adjuncts
are daughters of N-bar, whereas Determiners are daughters of N-double-bar.
Derived terms
* adjuncthood * adjunctiveAdjective
(en adjective)- Though that my death were adjunct to my act.
