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Seraph42 Posted 6 years ago
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Can adverbs modify prepositions?
the car spun right off the track?
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seraph42 Can adverbs modify prepositions? No. T he car spun right off the track .
- seraph42 Can adverbs modify prepositions?
- No.
- T he car spun right off the track .
- org/wiki/List_of_English_prepositions#Two_words
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seraph42 Can adverbs modify prepositions?
No.
The car spun right off the track.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_prepositions#Two_words
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The car spun [right off the track].
Certainly, they can.
In your example, the adverb "right" is a modifier in the bracketed PP.
Other examples with "right" include The ball went [right out of the park], The elephant came [right up to me]
Note, though, that "right" is a specialised pre-head modifier. In
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