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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
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He blinked open his eyes.

I met this sentence in a book. I can't figure out which word the word open refers to and what it means 
He blinked open his eyes.
  

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This is a difficult question to answer, even for a native speaker like myself. The writer is using cutting-edge English that's not easy to explain. One way of explaining it is as follows: "He" is subject, "his eyes" is the direct object of the verb, and the verb here is "to blink open," an apparently non-standard phrasal verb that the writer created on his own.

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  • This is a difficult question to answer, even for a native speaker like myself.
  • The writer is using cutting-edge English that's not easy to explain.
  • One way of explaining it is as follows: "He" is subject, "his eyes" is the direct object of the verb, and the verb here is "to blink open," an apparently non-standard phrasal verb that the writer created on his own.
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This is a difficult question to answer, even for a native speaker like myself. The writer is using cutting-edge English that's not easy to explain. One way of explaining it is as follows:


"He" is subject, "his eyes" is the direct object of the verb, and the verb here is "to blink open," an apparently non-standard phrasal verb that the writer created on his own.

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anonymousI met found this sentence in a book. I can't figure out which word the word open refers to and what it means

He blinked open his eyes.

It's the same as

He blinked his eyes open.

but with an inversion.

'open' is an object-oriented secondary predicate of the resu

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