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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

all the way home

Could you please help me with the parts of speech in "They sang loudly all the way home" and also "I saw that there was a fly in my soup".

Is "to get to school" a phrasal verb?

Many thanks

Mary
  

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"They sang loudly all the way home " --- this is fine "I saw [ that there was] a fly in my soup ----If you just want to point out to some one that there was a fly in your soup, you don't need the bracketed part. Grammatically, however, is not wrong. "To get to school" is not a phrasal verb.

— Anonymous

  • "They sang loudly all the way home " --- this is fine "I saw [ that there was] a fly in my soup ----If you just want to point out to some one that there was a fly in your soup, you don't need the bracketed part.
  • Grammatically, however, is not wrong.
  • "To get to school" is not a phrasal verb.
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"They sang loudly all the way home" --- this is fine

"I saw [that there was] a fly in my soup ----If you just want to point out to some one that there was a fly in your soup, you don't need the bracketed part. Grammatically, however, is not wrong.

"To get to school" is not a phrasal verb.
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Sorry- I don't understand your reply!

What is "all the way home" in terms of grammar?

What is "to get to school" if it's not a phrasal verb?

What are the "that there" are in the sentence? I get very confused with the differnt grammatical uses of "there"!!

Thanks

Mary
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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 used adverbially, and home is a noun used adverbially (to wh
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