Common errors¶
At the right times, kind people know how to be themselves.
Key points:
Object confused as adverbial
interrogative is not relative adverb
Your Original Label |
Correction |
|---|---|
“how to be themselves” is adverbial |
It functions as a noun clause / object of “know”, not adverbial. |
“how” is a relative adverb |
It is an interrogative adverb introducing an infinitival clause. |
“themselves” is an object of “to be” |
It is a subject complement, since to be is a linking verb. |
Notes
“themselves is a subject complement of the implied subject of ‘to be’
Misc¶
Classified a possessive determiner as a complement
jury’s decision
🚩 Use “clause” and not “sentence”
🚩 If it’s inside a noun phrase and it shows possession (X’s / of X), it is never a complement. It is a genitive determiner or modifier.
🚩 You correctly noted passive construction, but be precise: by CGI models” is not merely ‘adverbial’ — it is specifically an agent phrase in a passive construction.
🚩 You misidentified the “but rather …” segment as a restrictive subordinate relative phrase, when it is actually part of the main clause as a contrastive subject complement