John French, 1st Earl of Ypres but Joffre declined, saying this would be bad for BEF morale and he worked "well and cordially" with Sir John. Foch told Wilson of this (5 November). French sent Captain Freddy Guest to complain to the Prime Minister, who refused to believe it, and both Asquith and Churchill wrote French reassuring letters. French went to see Foch (6 November) to thank him for his "comradeship and loyalty". This did not stop him writing to Kitchener (15 November) that ""au fond", they are a low lot, and one always has to remember the class these French generals come from". French talked
Adverbial phrase modifier adverbial phrase "in an hour" can be removed, and the sentence remains well-formed (e.g., "I'll go to bed"); in (6) the modifier AdvP "three hours late" can be omitted, and the sentence remains well-formed (e.g., "We arrived"); and in (7), the modifier AdvP "later in the day" can be omitted, and the sentence remains well-formed (e.g. "The situation had resolved"). Just as adjective phrases function attributively to give additional information about an adjacent noun, the modifier adverbial phrases illustrated in (5) to (7) function as secondary predicates that give additional temporal information about the sentence. As mentioned above, complement