What sentence element does the part highlighted in red function as in the sentence?
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你的英语原文:
Reward or punishment are meted out quite independent of human interference.
语法解释:
The word “independent”is an adjective, so the “quite independent of human interference”(完全不受人类的干预影响的) is an adjective phrase , which functions as an attribute , and which should grammatically be after the noun which/that it modifies:
Reward or punishment “quite independent of human interference” are meted out, whereby or however, this structure is not common or popular because of its “heavy subject” or “top heavy sentence”. Such sentence should be rewritten grammatically as :
Reward or punishment are meted out quite independent of human interference.
Or rather:
Reward or punishment , quite independent of human interference, are meted out.
(实施完全不受人类的干预影响的奖励或惩罚)
Grammatically, this sentence can also be interpreted as the separation between the subject noun and its attribute.
(语法上也可以把该句子解释为主语名词和其定语的分离)
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