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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

The prepositional adverb used as adjectives

The following are of my own making.

1. Tom went to the table, ate a apple on.
2. Ill-natured Tom scratched with a nail a car ahead.

I'd like to know if prepositional adverbs can used as adjectives as in my examples.
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

Top answer

), or adjective "ahead".

  • ), or adjective "ahead".
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"a car ahead" is a noun phrase which can be arguably described as having its head "a car" postmodified by the adverb "ahead" (?), or adjective "ahead".
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park sang joon Tom went to the table, ate a apple on.
That makes no sense to me at all.
park sang joonIll-natured Tom scratched with a nail a car ahead.
It's possible to make some sense of that, but I don't think any native speaker would say it.
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park sang joon1. Tom went to the table, ate a apple on.
Tom took an apple from the table and ate it.

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