No more
"They [seagulls] attack in a blur of white and grey. In an instant, a pleasant day at the beach is transformed into a Hitchcockian nightmare of screams, pecks and flapping wings. Before the victim knows what hit them, their sausage roll is no more."
(The Guardian.)
Does the phrase "no more" (a complement in their sausage roll is no more) consist of two determinatives ("no" and "more") in the paragraph above?
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What's prompted me to ask that question is the clause you must have some hot soup, but no more wine where, in my opinion, "no" and "more" are determinatives.
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tkacka15 Does the phrase "no more" (a complement in their sausage roll is no more) consist of two determinatives ("no" and "more") in the paragraph above? My vote is that "no more" in this case is adverbial, not a complement. g.
- tkacka15 Does the phrase "no more" (a complement in their sausage roll is no more) consist of two determinatives ("no" and "more") in the paragraph above?
- My vote is that "no more" in this case is adverbial, not a complement.
- g.
- "The dodo lives no more" (poetic).
- tkacka15 What's prompted me to ask that question is the clause you must have some hot soup, but no more wine where, in my opinion, "no" and "more" are determinatives.
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tkacka15Does the phrase "no more" (a complement in their sausage roll is no more) consist of two determinatives ("no" and "more") in the paragraph above?
My vote is that "no more" in this case is adverbial, not a complement. Compare e.g. "The dodo lives no more" (poetic).
tkacka15What's prompted me to ask that question is the cla
0It must be a complement because it is required to complete the verb phrase. Note that obligatory items are always complements.
In your example, "no more" has a highly idiomatic meaning roughly equivalent to gone or non-existent).
As far as category (part of speech) is concerned, I'd be inclined to label its category as AdjP.
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