3 408 adjuncts michael newman query responses english permissable rel cl marker c l baker 1989 english syntax explicitly says p 238 nt agree kind elision taken place adverbial clause time problem one simply collocation two words time nt sit comfortably together english ear consider acceptability 1 remember first occasion played golf rejection sentence newman cites 2 nt remember first time played golf made structural syntactic grounds purely basis suggest time means thus sounds awkward scale acceptability following sentence might lie twixt others 3 remember first day played golf since day less basically word like time meaning may judge acceptable also perhaps choice strongest marker english restrictiveness rel cl since function rel clauses restrict day time prefer formal sense chaining suspect kinds sentences represent 4 remember first day played golf delete noisy buggers came along ruined game effectively introducing np another rel cl lloyd holliday school education la trobe university melbourne edulh lure latrobe edu au