Sentences with Two Qualifiers

This chapter focuses on the use of two qualifiers in a sentence. Two qualifiers can appear in a sentence in seven distinct ways. Seven sentence forms are presented in the chapter. For the first four, the two qualifiers are separated by all or part of the core. For the remainder of the two-qualifier sentence forms, the two qualifiers appear consecutively, either before, after, or within the core. The chapter provides examples for these sentence forms. In all these examples, the following convention will be used to distinguish the two qualifiers in each sentence: the first qualifier will be underlined once and the second qualifier will be underlined twice. When two qualifiers appear consecutively, two possibilities arise: (1) Both consecutive qualifiers modify elements within the core; (2) The second qualifier modifies an element within the first qualifier. Nested qualifiers are a subset of two consecutive qualifiers.