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Adjunct

In linguistics, an adjunct is an optional, or structurally dispensable, part of a sentence, clause, or phrase that, if removed or discarded, will not otherwise affect the remainder of the sentence. Example: In the sentence John helped Bill in Central Park, the phrase in Central Park is an adjunct.

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See also

Clause and sentence

Deixis and anaphora

Indirect speech

Negation

Phrase

Syntactic function

Word order

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