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Roky0071 Posted 9 years ago
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"away'' adjective or adverb?
I give an example below. they've got the kind of weapons that can zap the enemy from
"they've got the kind of weapons that can zap the enemy from thausands of miles away."
How to determine here that "away" is adjective or adverb?
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Traditional grammar treats this sense of "away" as an adverb. But modern grammar takes it as a preposition -- one that cannot take an NP complement, though it can take a from PP complement as in Ed walked away from the conflict.
It's used only post-positively, and is understood here as "away from the place where the weapons are fired, i.e. the source of the "zapping".
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roky0071"They've got the kind of weapons that can zap the enemy from thousands of miles away."
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