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Mahi Sheoran Posted 7 years ago
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Adverb

Name the adverbs which qualify nouns like 'this' in given sentence

How can you work 'this' well?

  

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Mahi Sheoran Name the adverbs which qualify nouns like 'this' in given sentence How can you work 'this' well? I'd name 'this' in that sentence as a noun phrase in the fused-head construction. 'this' (whatever it is) is simultaneously a determiner and the head of that NP.

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  • Mahi Sheoran Name the adverbs which qualify nouns like 'this' in given sentence How can you work 'this' well?
  • I'd name 'this' in that sentence as a noun phrase in the fused-head construction.
  • 'this' (whatever it is) is simultaneously a determiner and the head of that NP.
  • PS: I'm not sure that such a construction could be modified (qualified) by adverbs.
  • Maybe 'only' would do that.
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Mahi Sheoran

Name the adverbs which qualify nouns like 'this' in given sentence

How can you work 'this' well?

I'd name 'this' in that sentence as a noun phrase in the fused-head construction. 'this' (whatever it is) is simultaneously a determiner and the head of that NP.

PS: I'm not sure that such a construction could be modified (

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Mahi Sheoran

Name the adverbs which qualify nouns like 'this' in given sentence

How can you work 'this' well?

well is an adverb in that sentence. this qualifies well, and this is an adverb, too — an adverb of degree. There is no noun in sight that this could qualify, so it's hard to understand your question.

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