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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
The verbs modified by a noun
The protagonist is camping out in a forest.
He just now sensed a danger.
I opened my eyes the barest slits and tossed, as if in sleep, so that my right hand fell near the haft of my blade. I maintained my slow breathing pattern.
["Blood of Amber" of The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny]
I think "the barest slits" modifies "opened."
So, I was wondering if there are any other verbs can be modified by a noun except for "open."
Thank you in advance for your help.
He just now sensed a danger.
I opened my eyes the barest slits and tossed, as if in sleep, so that my right hand fell near the haft of my blade. I maintained my slow breathing pattern.
["Blood of Amber" of The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny]
I think "the barest slits" modifies "opened."
So, I was wondering if there are any other verbs can be modified by a noun except for "open."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
Dear asker: This is a process adjunct you are inquiring about. Two subclasses of these adjuncts --- manner and means adjuncts --- can be realized by noun phrases, but these are expandable to prepositional phrases and their prepositional "origins" are obvious: I opened my eyes [by] the barest slits Some other examples include They were walking single file . I'd like to send this parcel air mail .
- Dear asker: This is a process adjunct you are inquiring about.
- Two subclasses of these adjuncts --- manner and means adjuncts --- can be realized by noun phrases, but these are expandable to prepositional phrases and their prepositional "origins" are obvious: I opened my eyes [by] the barest slits Some other examples include They were walking single file .
- I'd like to send this parcel air mail .
- Just look into those process adjuncts.
- You'll see that there are actually myriad examples for this usage, so there is no specific set of verbs that go with such noun phrases.
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Dear asker:
This is a process adjunct you are inquiring about. Two subclasses of these adjuncts --- manner and means adjuncts --- can be realized by noun phrases, but these are expandable to prepositional phrases and their prepositional "origins" are obvious:
I opened my eyes [by] the barest slits
Some other examples include
They were walking si
This is a process adjunct you are inquiring about. Two subclasses of these adjuncts --- manner and means adjuncts --- can be realized by noun phrases, but these are expandable to prepositional phrases and their prepositional "origins" are obvious:
I opened my eyes [by] the barest slits
Some other examples include
They were walking si
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Thank you, Andriy Lapin, for another so very helpful answer from you. 
I put implied prepositions to your examples. How abo
I put implied prepositions to your examples. How abo
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park sang joonI put implied prepositions to your examples. How about the following?They were walking (in) single file.I'd like to send this parcel (by) air mail.Yes.
park sang joonCould you give me one or two more examples in somewhat complicated sentences?There's plenty of them, really, and the core structure does
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