Timeline for In the pattern "I am also <adjective>," does "also" modify the verb "am" or the adjective?
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| Jan 30 at 20:03 | answer | added | Edwin Ashworth | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Oct 2, 2023 at 22:33 | comment | added | John Lawler | "The also tall boy" sounds like "the too small box". Also modifies the verb phrase, just like a floated quantifier ought to. We also stopped at Jack's, or Also, we stopped at Jack's. But your brother's wrong to base any argument on such a silly rule as "an X never modifies a Y". That's a definition, not a test. | |
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| Sep 2, 2023 at 18:37 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | It's wrong for 'the other part that is relevant' (*'The also tall boy'), and I can't see what else it is intended to mean. | |
| Sep 2, 2023 at 17:06 | answer | added | alphabet | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 25, 2022 at 21:28 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | Pat's hungry, and I am also hungry. I am thirsty and I am also hungry. Context. | |
| Apr 25, 2022 at 20:05 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Apr 25, 2022 at 20:04 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Thankfully adverbs don't have to modify single words only. | |
| Apr 25, 2022 at 19:09 | history | edited | KillingTime | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Apr 25, 2022 at 18:56 | history | asked | T Hummus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |