Adjunction

__//Adjunction//__


 * D** **efinition::** Adjunction is when the verb is placed at either the very beginning or very end of the sentence instead of in the middle.
 * Origin::** Late 16th century


 * See also::** Adjunct, adjoin

Definition taken from (oxforddictionaries.com).


 * Examples** from text:

1) In Kate Chopin's //Story of an Hour,// Mrs. Mallard is a woman who has just found out of her husband's death. She is unsure how she feels about it, so she retreats to be alone.


 * Mrs. Mallard enters her room to be alone and wants nobody to follow her. Chopin uses the following two sentences to describe her actions. "There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable,roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul" (Chopin 1). The verb "stood" is placed at the beginning of the sentence, leaving the reader guessing what stood until they read the entire sentence. In contrast, the following phrase "into this she sank" describes Mrs. Mallard sinking into the chair. However the verb comes at the end of this phrase; instead of saying "she sank into the chair" it says "into this she sank."

2) In Sherwood Anderson's //The Book of the Grotesque// describes an old writer who is laying in his bed, thinking about death and everyone he has come into contact with throug hout his life. As he drifts off to sleep, he begins to see all of these people as "grotestques." Some are very sad, some are horrifying. After he wakes up he gets out of bed and writes them all down in a book.


 * The first example of adjunction found in this story is when the old man is getting into bed. The author describes the bedroom as such: "The windows of the house in which he lived were high" (Anderson 1). This is a good example because the verb, "were" does not come until the tail end of the sentence. Another example comes soon after, when the man is described in his bed as "Perfectly still he lay" (Anderson 1). Again, the verb comes at the end of the sentence. A final example is after the man has written the book and the narrator is describing the central themes of the book. He says "Hundreds and hundreds were the truths" (Anderson 2). In all of these examples, adjunction is seen because the verb comes at the very end of the sentence, instead of conventionally in the the middle.

(EM)