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MIG Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

adjective or verb

she was on her way home from school.
home is an adjective or a verb?
  

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adverb

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In your sentence 'home' is an adverb.

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I’d go with preposition.
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Aspara GusI’d go with preposition.
A preposition with a prepositional phrase as its object?
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enoonA preposition with a prepositional phrase as its object?
No, no object. In that sentence, home means to the place where she lives.
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Aspara Gus enoonA preposition with a prepositional phrase as its object?No object. In that sentence, home means to the place where she lives.
All adverbs can be expressed similarly. If she went back, it would be "to the place she was before". If she went away, it would be "from the place she was to some other place". If she went up, it would be "to a higher pl
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hi asspara.
please forgive me for my Irrelevant question.
shouldn't we use "when" after "certain"?
"Joanna thought the human brain was like an advanced computer. Sophie was not certain she agreed.Surely a person was more than a piece of hardware?"
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enoonIf she went away, it would be "from the place she was to some other place". If she went up, it would be "to a higher place".
I would call up and away prepositions, too, since they both function as locative complement to the verb went, not as modifiers. In She went slowly, on the other hand, slowly is an adverb because it
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Aspara GusI would call up and away prepositions, too, since they both function as locative complement to the verb went, not as modifiers. In She went slowly, on the other hand, slowly is an adverb because it modifies the verb, describing the manner in which she moved.
That is a strange grammar, and I can't subscribe to it. A preposition without the ghost of an
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