Accessory Terms of the Prayer

You accessory terms of prayer they are the vocative, the apposed, the adverbial adjunct and the adjoint adjunct, which are not essential, however, they help to add information.

In other words, these are terms that have a secondary role in the syntactic construction of clauses, although they are indispensable in some cases.

All of them have the function of expressing circumstances, characterizing beings and determining nouns. Let's see each of them below:

1. I bet

O bet it is an accessory term that has the function of explaining, summarizing, specifying about something that has already been said before. It is usually separated by commas, parentheses, or dashes.

According to the intention of the speech, the bet is classified as: explanatory, distributive, enumerative, comparative and summarizing.

Example: Doctor Ana, the best nutritionist in town, was awarded this week. (explanatory bet)

2. Vocative

O vocative it is a term used to evoke, call or question the speaker. It is an independent term, as it has no syntactic relationship with another term in the clause.

Usually the vocative is separated by commas.

Example: Dear, come by Avenida Rebouças because the traffic has decreased.

3. Adverbial Adjunct

You adverbial adjuncts are terms that complement verbs, adverbs or adjectives indicating a circumstance.

According to the purpose they express, they are classified into: mode, time, intensity, negation, affirmation, doubt, purpose, matter, place, medium, concession, argument, company, cause, subject, instrument, phenomenon of nature, taste, feeling, price, opposition, addition, condition.

Example: The sweets were much tasty. (adverbial intensity adverbial)

4. Adjunct Assistant

You adjuncts they are terms that accompany the noun and have the function of characterizing, modifying, determining or qualifying the name. They can be: pronouns, numerals, articles, adjectives and adjective phrases.

Example: Yours friends were fun with me.

Read more about the Adnominal and Adverbial Adjunct

solved exercises

1. “Accessory terms are those that play a secondary role in prayer, namely that of characterizing a being, determining the nouns, expressing some circumstance. ” (CEGALLA, 2007, p. 363).

Review the phrases and terms in bold and mark the correct alternative:

  • Maria do Carmo, best student in the class, won the literature award
  • Joana, come see your favorite show.
  • moved there three weeks.
  • I lived with Bruno close to two years

a) adnominal adjunct, verbal complement, apposed and vocative
b) vocative, apposed, adjunct adjunct and adverbial adjunct
c) apposed, vocative, adjunct adnominal and adverbial adjunct
d) nominal, vocative, numeral and verbal complement
e) vocative, nominal complement, adverbial adjunct and nominal adjunct

Letter c: apostolic, vocative, adjunct adnominal and adverbial adjunct

2. “Adverbial adjunct is the term that expresses a circumstance (of time, place, mode, etc.) or, in other words, that modifies the meaning of a verb, adjective or adverb.” (CEGALLA, 2007, p. 364).

Tick ​​the alternative below that no plays the role of adverbial adjunct:
The) Perhaps Juan was right.
b) like much of chocolate.
c) we arrived the city at the end of the night.
d) We're back by car to the beach.
e) José, grandfather of Daniel, bought a car.

Letter e: José, Daniel's grandfather, bought a car. (vocative function)

See too: Exercises on adverbial adjunct (with commented feedback)

3. which of the sentences below no presents a bet?

a) Geography, the study of the land, is a fundamental subject of the school curriculum.
b) Joana presented her work at the school that received the highest grade.
c) Diana and Richard were the winners, the one in running, and this one in athletics.
d) In her bag, she took what she needed: clothes, food and medicine.
e) The girl, who seemed unconscious, was taken to the hospital.

Letter b: Joana presented her work at the school that received the highest grade.

Keep studying:

  • syntactic function
  • Syntax analisys
  • Constituent Terms of the Prayer
  • Essential Terms of Prayer: Subject and Predicate
  • Terms Integrating the Prayer: Verbal and Nominal Complement

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