Timeline for What part of speech is "care" in the following sentences?
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| Jun 6, 2018 at 18:19 | comment | added | aesking | @BillJ I don't disagree with you there but you said "with the highest grade" is not an adjective phrase to student(Joe) | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 18:13 | comment | added | BillJ | Look: "with great care" is a PP functioning not as an adjective phrase, but as a modifier. To call it an adjective phrase is simply ridiculous. Within the PP, "with" has the NP "great care" as its complement. The PP as a whole describes how the referent of "he" played football, and is thus a manner adjunct. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 18:06 | comment | added | BillJ | @asking They are wrong as any serious grammarian will tell you. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 18:05 | comment | added | aesking | According to the University of Illinois they are. Doing a quick Google search brought me to where the OP quoted his example from. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 18:01 | comment | added | BillJ | @asking No, they are not. You are conflating category and function. A PP is a phrase with a preposition as head, which typically functions as an adjunct in clause structure or a modifier in NP structure. An adverb phrase has an adverb as head, e.g. "Quite separately from this issue" and an adjective phrase has an adjective as head, e.g. "very eager for more news". | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 17:54 | comment | added | aesking | @BillJ: adverbial and adjectivial phrases are types of prepositional phrases | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 17:49 | comment | added | BillJ | "With" is a preposition, so "with the highest grade" is not an adjective phrase, but a preposition phrase modifying "student". And in "He played baseball with great care", "with great care" is a preposition phrase functioning as a manner adjunct. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 17:16 | answer | added | herisson | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 17:03 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | With great care is an adverbial (not adjectival) phrase, modifying the verb played. The "head" word is care, which could be approximated as the single-word adverb carefully. Compare with joy, joyfully. Also compare I ate peas with rice ("adjectival", if you like; modifies peas) and I ate dinner with her (adverbial, modifies ate). | |
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| Jun 6, 2018 at 16:59 | history | asked | Stephan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |