triplechoice:


My dear ,each of the constituent parts of the sentence have their function . If you know what they're ,you won't argue this with me.

The adverbial clause, "because she was drunk" is performing the function of an adverb, and adverbs can only modify verbs, adjectives, and another adverb, not nouns.

The clause is modifying the action, "beats up" and not describing the daughter as drunk.
Please read up grammatical function to understand this better.

"A father beat up his daughter because he was drunk " ,is the same kind of sentence.

You cannot argue in the above that it's the daughter that was drunk.

First off, I'm not arguing with you. I'm only trying to share knowledge with you regarding this.
Adverbs and adverbials modify verbs, correct. "Because she was drunk" in that sentence modifies the verb phrase "beats up" but it doesn't in anyway clarify the antecedent of "she".
Also, "A father beat up his daughter because he was drunk " isn't the same kind of sentence because we know the pronoun "he" is clearly masculine and refers to the father and not the daughter here. However, "A father beat up his son because he was drunk" is more like it. It presents us with the case of ambiguity too.

Meanwhile, consider this:
The woman swept the room because it was dirty.

Using your logic on this statement above, you're saying that "Because it was dirty" here modifies the verb "swept" which is, of course, correct. But does the "it" refer to "the woman"? Can you see that your explanation is completely flawed now? That statement by OP is a case of ambiguity. The speaker needs to either reframe the statement or add more information to disambiguate it.

triplechoice:

It's the mother who was drunk, not the daughter.

The adverbial clause of reason, "because she was drunk" functions to modify the phrasal verb, "beats up" in the main clause, "A mother beats up her daughter" to tell us the reason for the action of beating up.

"because she was drunk" is modifying the phrasal verb, "beats up", and not describing the daughter as drunk.

If the daughter is the drunk, then the correct sentence will be,

A mother beats up her daughter who was drunk.

No, sir. Semantics doesn't work that way. It's an ambiguous sentence. That is to say that it can mean different things.
While you're very correct about the adverbial clause modifying the verbal phrase "beat up", (even though it was erroneously written as "beats up" ) it still doesn't explain whether it's the mother who was drunk or the daughter. Read up on ambiguity in language.

kings59:
A mother is the subject, her daughter is the object, because = is the emphasis, she was drunk was the reason for the action.

Her daughter was drunk.

He threw the fruit away because it was bad.

Well, while it is a cohesive and coherent sentence, this is a case of ambiguity. Unless the speaker gives further information, it is hard to tell whether it is the mother or the daughter that was drunk.

Ok. We don hear

yahoodetector:

Which self control? Black women do it but very discreetly. It is very rampant here in Nigeria especially by all these feminists. They even abuse male infants. Sometimes you see ladies carrying the male toddlers of their neighbors and friends buying them biscuits and nutrimilk drink and you will think it's nothing but if you get to see what they do to these boys in the privacy of their rooms, you will stone them!

The reason why we don't catch them is because the anatomy of males is not like females that get bruised when abused sexually.

Jeez, that's crazy.

Wow. Be like na only white women dey sexually abuse male teens sha. This kind news rare for our continent. Wait, does this mean that black women have better self control?

Kai. Country hard like cocoyam wey no gree done and one still can't find good network to escape to internet world where it's all chill and easier.

ComeToJesus:


My brother, even people wey get sense before, the whole sense don melt like fat because of social media influence chase..

It's a horrible situation..

Very horrible. Those of us planning to raise our children in these times have our work cut out for us already.

This is so wrong. There are other nonsensual ways of dancing with one's grown-up child. People no just wan gree get sense for this age.

I don't know, but I just love women in football.

It's hard to predict the outcome of this AFCON. If anything, Nigeria has been riding on luck. I can only hope we continue on that lucky streak.

Udoboss:


Yes na...

Nobody fit tell me say no be bomb... they need better explanation or a good cover up story

Omo see big man lyk me dey run like small pikin

Big man pikin got me 😂

Having felt the impact firsthand at my hostel in UI, I really hope they come up with a convincing and non-fatal explanation.

Felt more like a tremor anyway.

Eeyah.. This life na turn by turn. The important thing is to use your turn wisely without losing sight of honesty. At long last, many of us will come to realise that it isn't always about money. See as this one just ruined her family name. Chai!

Oh boy. This failure does nothing but reinforces the narrative on the alleged staging of the Apollo 11 moon landing in '69.

BALLOSKI:
You be veteran 😂


You don dance konko below tire back then... 😂

Guilty as charged. 😂

Man, this lady and Lagbaja gave us mad hits back then.

I especially love that part where she sang "Ijo ya o, ijo ya o, Lagbaja!" in 'Konko Below'

Like a wise Faze once said, "una go hala my name one day o."

Hehehe. Why is he giving Freddy Krueger vibes, though?

mastermaestro:


Youths will only rise up when Yahoo stops paying. For now, there is enough cash to buy many things at any price.

So sad, man

Man, these are hard times in the country. It's so surprising that the youths aren't mustering same energy to protest this hardship like they did during Mohbad's demise. Talk about misplaced priorities.

Me sef I go like learn the difference

This man na legend. He's an embodiment of "We Own the Night" by The Wanted. Only Indomie generation go disagree with me.

Happy birthday, legend!

Headline should be: The Red Devils were Brightoned up at Old Trafford for the second season in a row.

Angelfrost:
Some singers NEVER grow beyond their groups. E.g:


One Direction except Styles and Zayn
Etc...!

Niall Horan should also make an exception.

OP, take Psquare out of the list. In my opinion, those guys have conquered African music industry in their own time. Ice Prince and Duncan Mighty sef don try.
Only Victor Ad and Black Face are relevant to this topic.

As I never see pictures of tomato and pepper sellers rocking the shirt, I no fit deny say na political propaganda this thread be

Black man no just get sense. Smh

Hehe. Fingers crossed

So sorry about your job loss, OP. I can totally relate to how you might be feeling now cause I also lost my job in the beginning of February. But the joy of living and hoping makes the pain less severe as the days go by.

Don't dismay, we'll find our feet again.

58 is young o. RIP, sir

RIP, beautiful soul