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We watch the sun set from the lip of the canyon, overlooking a rectangular structure that looks everything like an ancient apartment building.
1. Is the sentence above grammatical and natural-sounding?
2. Is "everything" used as an adverb?
3. If everything is used as an adverb, what does everything modify? like or looks?
I think the sentence is grammatical and everything is used as an adverb modifying the verb looks.
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fire1 We watch the sun set from the lip of the canyon, overlooking a rectangular structure that looks everything like an ancient apartment building. 1. Is the sentence above grammatical and natural-sounding?
- fire1 We watch the sun set from the lip of the canyon, overlooking a rectangular structure that looks everything like an ancient apartment building.
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- Is the sentence above grammatical and natural-sounding?
- ] 2.
- Is "everything" used as an adverb?
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fire1We watch the sun set from the lip of the canyon, overlooking a rectangular structure that looks everything like an ancient apartment building.
1. Is the sentence above grammatical and natural-sounding?
[It seems natural enough.]2. Is "everything" used as an adverb?
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0fire11. Is the sentence above grammatical and natural-sounding?
"Everything" is not natural. Use "for all the world" or "just" or "in all respects" or one of a dozen alternatives.
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