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Tkacka15 Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

...to stay on on Thursday...

Asked if he wanted Tillerson to stay on on Thursday, Donald Trump said: “He’s here. Rex is here.”

Is the first "on" an adverb in the sentence above?

  

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I suppose you could call it that, but really it's better to think of 'stay on' as a phrasal verb. (Sorry about the caps) Definition of stay on 1 : to continue to work at a job She thought about retiring, but she finally decided to stay on for a few more years. After she graduated, she stayed on at the college, working in the alumnae office.

— Clive

  • I suppose you could call it that, but really it's better to think of 'stay on' as a phrasal verb.
  • (Sorry about the caps) Definition of stay on 1 : to continue to work at a job She thought about retiring, but she finally decided to stay on for a few more years.
  • After she graduated, she stayed on at the college, working in the alumnae office.
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I suppose you could call it that, but really it's better to think of 'stay on' as a phrasal verb.

(Sorry about the caps)

Definition of stay on

1 : to continue to work at a job
  • She thought about retiring, but she finally decided to stay on for a few more years.
  • After she graduated, she stayed on at the college, working in the al
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I would call it an adverb too, but when a similar question came up in another thread, it transpired that some people view these words as prepositions.

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