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Moon7296 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
home, overseas (can be nouns?)
I found this the book I read. "The Grammar Book"
Obligatory deletion.
- When a locative noun, such as home or downtown, or the pro-adverbs here and there are used with a verb of motion or direction.
1. We went (to xx) home.
2. Phyllis walks (to xx) here every day.
Q) I thought "home" in #1 is an adverb but after I read the explanation above, I was surprised to see it explain "home" a noun.
Is home really used as a noun or an adverb in #1?
Q2) The book adds one more example overseas as a noun if it is used in like example #1. Do you think it can be a noun?
Obligatory deletion.
- When a locative noun, such as home or downtown, or the pro-adverbs here and there are used with a verb of motion or direction.
1. We went (to xx) home.
2. Phyllis walks (to xx) here every day.
Q) I thought "home" in #1 is an adverb but after I read the explanation above, I was surprised to see it explain "home" a noun.
Is home really used as a noun or an adverb in #1?
Q2) The book adds one more example overseas as a noun if it is used in like example #1. Do you think it can be a noun?
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moon7296 I thought "home" in #1 is an adverb but after I read the explanation above, I was surprised to see it explain "home" a noun. Is home really used as a noun or an adverb in #1? It depends who you ask.
- moon7296 I thought "home" in #1 is an adverb but after I read the explanation above, I was surprised to see it explain "home" a noun.
- Is home really used as a noun or an adverb in #1?
- It depends who you ask.
- ) In this methodology the word category rarely changes no matter how the word is used in a sentence.
- Usually, only the function changes.
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moon7296I thought "home" in #1 is an adverb but after I read the explanation above, I was surprised to see it explain "home" a noun. Is home really used as a noun or an adverb in #1?It depends who you ask. The latest methodology divides the analysis of such things into two parts: word category (noun, adjective, verb, etc.) and function (subject, complement,
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"Locative" is the name of a case that English does not have. Grammarians get carried away sometimes, and you just have to bear with them and try to understand what they're saying without buying into their whole deal every time. English is bigger than any of us.
You can safely think of "home" as an adverb in "We went home", like "away". Same goes for "overseas".
You can safely think of "home" as an adverb in "We went home", like "away". Same goes for "overseas".
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