Timeline for Is 'Close to' a phrasal verb?
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| May 30, 2020 at 0:01 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Apr 30, 2020 at 0:23 | comment | added | Xanne | However, we could say: India is closing rapidly on superpower status. | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 23:07 | answer | added | Tinfoil Hat | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 21:59 | comment | added | Lambie | @HotLicks Never mind that. | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 19:56 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @Lambie - You forget rule #1 of English grammar! | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 19:32 | comment | added | John Lawler | @HotLicks To being is not a phrase of any sort. It's not a constituent, just a string, like one of. To goes with being a superpower, not just with being | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 18:35 | comment | added | BillJ | I agree with JL. "Close" is an adjective with the preposition phrase "to being a superpower" as its complement. The whole expression "close to being a superpower" is thus an adjective phrase functioning as predicative complement of "be". | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 17:49 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @JohnLawler - Isn't "to being" claimed to be a "verbal phrase" or some such, not a "prepositional phrase"? | |
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| Apr 29, 2020 at 17:18 | comment | added | John Lawler | Close to is neither a phrasal verb nor a verbal phrase (which are not the same thing). Close is a locational adjective which takes a to prepositional phrase with object nouns that denote locations (in this case, the location is metaphorical, on an imaginary scale of national power). Close is the predicate adjective of the sentence, is is the auxiliary verb. By the way, you may have been confused because of the spelling. There is a verb close, but it's pronounced /kloz/, while the adjective close of close to is pronounced /klos/, with an /s/, not a /z/. | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 17:05 | history | asked | Rocky | CC BY-SA 4.0 |