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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Below

Hi,

"Below decks offers no respite – moving from one side of the boat to the other involves scaling a 30 degree slope, hanging from one hand-hold to the next." [From The Independent.]

Is the "below" in the sentence an adverb, preposition or a sort of adjectival modifier of the noun "decks"?

Thank you.
  

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Two major dictionaries call the single word 'belowdecks' an adverb: BELOWDECKS : inside or into the superstructure of a boat : down to a lower deck be·low·decks adverb Nautical . within the hull of a vessel: Fire raged belowdecks.

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  • Two major dictionaries call the single word 'belowdecks' an adverb: BELOWDECKS : inside or into the superstructure of a boat : down to a lower deck be·low·decks adverb Nautical .
  • within the hull of a vessel: Fire raged belowdecks.
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Two major dictionaries call the single word 'belowdecks' an adverb:

BELOWDECKS

: inside or into the superstructure of a boat : down to a lower deck


be·low·decks

adverb Nautical .
within the hull of a vessel: Fire raged belowdecks.
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Thank you, MM, for your useful reply.
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