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Angliholic Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

in bare feet

Be careful when you walk on the beach in bare feet.

Hi,
Is "in" in the above optional? If not, what does it mean? Thanks.
  

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We walked barefoot on the beach. Here, "barefoot" is an adverb telling only how we walked. We walked on the beach in bare feet.

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  • We walked barefoot on the beach.
  • Here, "barefoot" is an adverb telling only how we walked.
  • We walked on the beach in bare feet.
  • " The preposition "in" shows the relation between the "mode" in which we appeared and the action we performed.
  • The "in" is not optional.
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We walked barefoot on the beach. Here, "barefoot" is an adverb telling only how we walked.

We walked on the beach in bare feet. Here, the prepositional phrase "in bare feet" is also adverbial in function, but modifies the entire clause, "we walked on the beach." The preposition "in" shows the relation between the "mode" in which we appeared and the action we performed.
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