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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary
remain silent
In the sentence "He remained silent at the meeting", I wonder what the part of speech of "remain" is. Obviously "silent" is an adjective. when "remain" is followed by an adjective, it seems that it should be an copula like "be". but my dictionary gives the indication of [la, ln] for its part of speech. I wonder what does [la, ln] stands for.
Hope someone can help me make the grammatical analysis. thank you all.
Hope someone can help me make the grammatical analysis. thank you all.
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'Remained' is an intransive verb. I don't know what 'la' and 'ln' stand for as dictionary abbreviations. Are those ( L )s or (i)s?
- 'Remained' is an intransive verb.
- I don't know what 'la' and 'ln' stand for as dictionary abbreviations.
- Are those ( L )s or (i)s?
- If they are (i)s, possibly-- in transitive (verb), and i ntransitive a djective
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'Remained' is an intransive verb. I don't know what 'la' and 'ln' stand for as dictionary abbreviations. Are those (L)s or (i)s?
If they are (i)s, possibly-- intransitive (verb), and intransitive adjective
If they are (i)s, possibly-- intransitive (verb), and intransitive adjective
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