Wednesday 5 December 2018

Circumstances Without Prepositions: Extent And Location

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 349):
… just as those elements which are treated essentially as participants can sometimes occur with a preposition, so at least some elements which are treated essentially as circumstances can sometimes occur without one. With expressions of Extent and Location there is often no preposition as in they stayed two days, they left last Wednesday.