He built a clean path and a wooden bridge over a pond. Is over a pool an attribute or an adverbial, or both? The teacher said it was an adverbial of place, and the reference book I bought was an attribute. Should that be an attribute or an adverbial? How to analyze.
In order to give a professional free answer:
First, let's analyze the sentence structure, and then you will know.
(1) Subject: He (He)
(2) Sentence predicate (1): hasmade (construction)
(3) Sentence object (1): neat sidewalk (neat sidewalk)
(4) Sentence predicate (2): build
(5) sentence object (2): woodenbridge (wooden bridge)
(6) sentence adverbial: over a poor (prepositional phrase as adverbial of place, indicating above the pond/pond)
Above the pond/pond, he built neat sidewalks and wooden bridges.
He built a neat sidewalk and a wooden bridge over the pond.
Over a poor is a prepositional phrase, which is used as an adverbial of place to modify the predicate verb of a sentence. Where ... is it ... built? ....
Modifiers are used to describe how verbs are, where actions take place, and the characteristics of actions. They are all adverbials, which modify nouns as attributes. For example, we must find out.
The bridge over the river was built in 1980 (over the river is used as an attribute to modify the previous noun in this sentence) (Chinese meaning: the bridge over the river was built in 1980)
They built the bridge on the river in 1980 (in this sentence, over the river is used as an adverbial to indicate the place where the action took place) (in Chinese, they built the bridge on the river in 1980).