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This is a function, not a part of speech. That is, there is no such thing as a part of speech called a "predicate adjective". Most of your examples are nouns functioning as adjectives within a compound noun structure. If you need to know these for a class, check with the teacher or...

Hi, In the book named "Longman English Grammar" by L. G. Alexander in the section 8 named "Prepositions, Adverb particles, and Phrasal verbs," I saw this sentence. What does 'case' mean to you? English uses more prepositions than most other European languages,...

2. Thought it was adverb, as it explains how the boys followed. 3. Thought it was a verb, as it follows the pronoun "I" 2-- Maybe it is , if you consider 'follow after' to be a phrasal verb; then 'the girls' is the object. However, follow can be intransitive ( Bill led and Jane followed ), so I...

Sorry; I misspoke in my earlier post. Take care of is not a phrasal verb, it is just a verb phrase, a verbal idiom. Phrasal verbs consist of a verb + particle (adverb, preposition) which behave as a syntactic unit Make up (= invent) is a phrasal verb, and cannot take an internal adverb: Make...

Hello, A phrasal verb is made up of a verb and an adverb. You can have a pronoun between them. A phrasal verb acts as one unit. A pronoun coming between them will not change the meaning of the phrasal verb. There is nothing wrong in having a pronoun between a verb and a preposition. But...

Mister Micawber wrote: If the test is anything like the ETS tests (TOEFL, etc), Clive, then it tests both grammar and vocabulary. The TOEIC section offers the two types of questions in a roughly 50/50 ratio. It is among the vocabulary set. The section which this question is in consists of 18...

all the way home is an adverbial phrase indicating during/along the entire trip/path/way to their home . It is a curious mix of adverb of place (path, actually) and adverb of time (period, actually). Individually, all is an adverb of degree (how much of the way ?), the way is an article and noun...

Separable phrasal verbs must be separated when there is a pronoun. Pick me up and not pick up me. I Picked up a leaflet from the floor. "Is it always the case that the non-pronoun object could be either before or after the particle in a phrasal verb" Only if, but not if and only if,...

I don't think it is always the case, no. I'll think about it. Maybe I can think of an example where the noun has to be on one side of the particle or the other all the time. CJ

The overall impressions of reading it are: The prepositions are more intimate with the objects than the adverbs. Those methods are to judge this intimateness. And it must be an adverb, when one can put the object in front of the unidentified particle. Could I ask a basic question? Is it...