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- - - - The attribute function can be based on a simple or substituted noun phrase, on an adjective phrase, on a prepositional phrase or on a sentence.
- - - - Instead, an adverbial unit would appear, typical of circumstantial functions: The lawyer lived like this, The rain fell like this, The trees grew like this, etc. And even those adjectives could be exchanged for adverbs of the modal sense: The lawyer lived quietly, The rain fell heavily, The trees grew lush, The twins were born with rickets, The public listened in silence, The waves roar with fury.
        This adjacent special may be called a circumstantial attribute or an attributive adverb.
        
        The adjacent attributive is compatible in the same sentence with other adjacent ones: The judge calmly dictated the sentence, where it appears with a direct object; The spectators talked about the game enthusiastically, where there is a prepositional object. On the other hand, this attribute can be placed, as a subparagraph between commas, after the subject noun: The judge, calmly, handed down the sentence.
        
        Other cases of circumstantial attributes appear when the verbal nucleus increases with a reflective unit according to the same person who fulfills as grammatical subject. The attribute, through the reflexive, agrees with the lexical subject:
        I have become lazy. We have turned red.
        The adjectives of these sentences would not be reproduced either in the avoidance with the unity of the proper attributes. It would not be said that I have not turned it on, nor have we put it on. These attributes with a reflexive are represented by an adverbial unit or a demonstrative or are simply eliminated:
        That I have become. This is how we have become.
        
        Of the Object
        Another adjacent of attributive traits is the one found in sentences like the following:
        They stumped the director. His jacket was stained .
        They will buy cheap furniture. He had hairy ears.
        They named my friend mayor . They chose queen their daughter.
        The difference with respect to the adjacent attributives of the subject is that now the presumed attributes do not refer to the lexical subject or agree with it, but rather with the direct object. They are, therefore, attributes of the object. They vary in number and gender according to those of the direct object.
        
        In conclusion , if there is only one noun in this type of sentence, it works as a direct object; if there are two, the one that is updated or identified (with article or other equivalents) will fulfill the role of object and the other the office of attribute.
        
        It is verified in the cases of elision of both adjacent ones, since their referents are different: unstressed increments for the direct object, and tonic units for the attribute.
        The interrogative substitutes for the adjacent adjectives and nouns in these constructions also differ. How is used to ask for the adjective, and what for the case of the noun.
        Do not confuse these sentences with others that also have two nouns adjacent to the nucleus , one as a direct object function and another immobilized in its possibilities of morphematic variation.
        
        The nouns pieces, shatters and cisco cannot vary their morphematic features or admit an article: The letter made a piece, You have smashed the armchair, That news makes us cisco. Also, if the direct object were removed, the rest would not make sense as a sentence: Smashed, Shattered, Makes cisco.
        These are verb phrases whose meaning corresponds in some cases to verbs in which the meanings of ‘doing’ and the immobilized noun are unified: made pieces = shattered, makes dust = pulverizes.
- - - - Verbal Predicate
        In the verbal predicate the most important element is the lexical meaning of the verb, which conditions the structure of the predicate, since it requires certain verbal complements that configure it.
        The predicate is what is affirmed or denied of the subject. Generally, the predicate is a verb phrase (SV) that has a verb as its nucleus. Verbs denote processes, actions and states that occur in the world, such as attending, pushing, running over, giving, buying, getting old, being happy, etc.
        The students of the island of the sun ( Subject ) attended the seminar punctually ( Predicate )