Think it all out?
Hi. I found this sentence interesting.
"I shall have to think it all out."
I haven't seen the verb "think" is used as intrasitive verb form and I don't know what exactly "all out" means although I get the vague sense it means "completely"(like squeezing efforts all out?)
Thank you for your answer in advance
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I shall have to think it all out . "It all" is probably best analysed as a compound pronoun, which means that it is direct object of "think". "Out" is a preposition serving as complement of "think".
- I shall have to think it all out .
- "It all" is probably best analysed as a compound pronoun, which means that it is direct object of "think".
- "Out" is a preposition serving as complement of "think".
- We can gloss it for comparative purposes as "the entirety of it", where "it" is probably anaphoric to something mentioned earlier in the discourse.
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I shall have to think it all out.
"It all" is probably best analysed as a compound pronoun, which means that it is direct object of "think". "Out" is a preposition serving as complement of "think".
We can gloss it for comparative purposes as "the entirety of it", where "it" is probably anaphoric to something mentioned earlier in the discourse.
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