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Df2006 Posted 19 years ago
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urgent help needed - what part of speech is 'two inches"

0Will anyone be kind enough to tell me what part of speech is 'TWO INCHES' in the following sentence? It can't be the DIRECT OBJECT since the verb 'grew' seems to be an intransitive verb.02br
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00'My plant grew two inches this year.'02br
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00Thank you very much.0-
  

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0I'd call it a noun phrase or elided prepositional phrase (01i01b00by02b00 two inches02i00) used as an adverbial.0-

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