Is 'something (like that)' always a noun phrase in 'or something (like that)'?
In this Independent article, a professor was quoted as saying:
I’ve never seen a diamond shatter like that. It was so powdered on the surface, it looked like baking soda or something like that.
Wherein "something like that" is clearly a noun phrase because "that" refers to "baking soda".
But in this U.S. article, an American named Smith was quoted as saying:
I could have possibly been dead, or something like that, or almost dying or something, and he just takes off like that.
Here, is "something like that" a noun phrase? How about the second "something"?
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S. article ... is "something like that" a noun phrase?
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- is "something like that" a noun phrase?
- How about the second "something"?
- Yes, they're both noun phrases, but here 'something' is used in reference to the whole idea expressed in the preceding clauses, not to a particular physical thing.
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JungKim in this U.S. article ... is "something like that" a noun phrase? How about the second "something"?
Yes, they're both noun phrases, but here 'something' is used in reference to the whole idea expressed in the preceding clauses, not to a particular physical thing.
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