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Word Order and Part-of-Speech Clues
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PPR.161 Word Order and Part-of-Speech Clues
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A reader decodes cheerful in this sentence: The children were cheerful after the play. Which syntactic clue is strongest?
A
Cheerful follows the linking verb were and describes children.
B
Cheerful follows children, so it names a second group of children.
C
Cheerful comes before after, so it must be a preposition.
D
Cheerful ends the main clause, so it tells how the children were.
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