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Anonymous Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

In a bit

The water has been really low, he said, but it's starting to fill back in a bit.

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I think that the "a bit" is a noun phrase and a complement in the PP "in a bit".

Am I correct?

  

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"Fill back in" is a sort of phrasal verb equivalent to "be replenished". The "in" is an adverb in any case. You might fill in a hole, meaning to put the dirt back in until it is flush with the surrounding ground.

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  • "Fill back in" is a sort of phrasal verb equivalent to "be replenished".
  • The "in" is an adverb in any case.
  • You might fill in a hole, meaning to put the dirt back in until it is flush with the surrounding ground.
  • You fill it in.
  • "Fill back in" in your sentence is natural but questionable, The pond was beginning to fill back up, if you ask me.
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"Fill back in" is a sort of phrasal verb equivalent to "be replenished". The "in" is an adverb in any case. You might fill in a hole, meaning to put the dirt back in until it is flush with the surrounding ground. You fill it in. "Fill back in" in your sentence is natural but questionable, The pond was beginning to fill back up, if you ask me. "A bit" is a noun phrase used adverbially; "in a bi

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The constituents of the sentence line up thus:

to fill back in || a bit

Not:

to fill back || in a bit

'in a bit' means 'very soon', and that's incompatible with 'has been' and 'is starting'.

"fill back in" is a phrasal verb.

CJ

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