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Part of speech: “I am disappointed with”
In a construction such as, "John is disappointed with Alice", what part of speech is disappointed with? It appears to me that the "am" is a linking verb.
Similarly, "Jessica is sad", it seems to me ...
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What part of speech does “here” have in “I am here”?
What part of speech does here have in the following sentence?
I am here.
I say that in that sentence, here must be an adverb because:
It modifies the verb am by describing where I am.
Am is a ...
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What is the grammatical function of “never”?
What is the grammatical function of "never" in the following sentence?
You will have to do something you've never done.
Is it an adverb? My father disagrees with this.
In "I have studied" vs. ...
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Adverb vs. direct object [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What exactly is an “adverb”?
Consider the following sentences:
She went home.
He swam yesterday.
Are the words "home" and "yesterday" adverbs or direct ...
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Yes, no, adverbs, and interjections
There appears to be some disagreement over what function yes and no perform in the following sentences:
Yes, you are right.
No, you are mistaken.
According to ODO (yes, no), they are being used as ...
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Can adverbs be also direct objects?
"The irate customer asked for the chef."
The irate customer asked something. (Noun phrase?)
Since you can fill in something in place of 'for the chef,' does that mean it is a direct object and an ...
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What part of speech is “only” in this sentence: Fame lights a fuse that leads only to extinguishment
My impulse is that it's modifying the verb leads, and is thus an adverb; yet it seems that a case could also be made that it's exerting power on the phrase to extinguishment, a noun, which would make ...
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Part of speech of “very,” “extremely,” “really,” and “quite”
While working on developing the lexicon in one of my constructed languages, I encountered a slight difficulty in using standard classifications for words like very, extremely, really, and quite.
To ...
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What is the word “who”?
Is the word "who" an adverb? If not, what is it? If it is an adverb, what type of adverb is it?
