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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
Use Of Noun In A Sentence
I am hoping you can assure me that I am not losing my mind. My daughter had a question on her 6th grade English exam that read as follows:
Tell whether the underlined word in the sentence is used as a noun, verb or adjective.
1) Where will we go on holiday this weekend?
My daughter's answer was "noun". The teacher marked it wrong saying it is an adjective describing "weekend". I've had quite a few college writing classes, but a longgggg time ago. Even so, I can't see anyway of justifying the teacher's argument that holiday is being used as an adjective. I could see if the sentence read:
Where will we go on our holiday weekend? "Holiday" is being used as an adjective. Please tell me I have not forgotten everything I learned.
Patrick
Tell whether the underlined word in the sentence is used as a noun, verb or adjective.
1) Where will we go on holiday this weekend?
My daughter's answer was "noun". The teacher marked it wrong saying it is an adjective describing "weekend". I've had quite a few college writing classes, but a longgggg time ago. Even so, I can't see anyway of justifying the teacher's argument that holiday is being used as an adjective. I could see if the sentence read:
Where will we go on our holiday weekend? "Holiday" is being used as an adjective. Please tell me I have not forgotten everything I learned.
Patrick
Top answer
No justification for anything but a noun (as object of the preposition ' on ') in #1. Fire the teacher.
- No justification for anything but a noun (as object of the preposition ' on ') in #1.
- Fire the teacher.
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No justification for anything but a noun (as object of the preposition 'on') in #1. Fire the teacher.
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Two votes for a firing.
You might even say that the prep. + noun combination "on holiday" acts adverbially here, and qualifies "go".
MrP
You might even say that the prep. + noun combination "on holiday" acts adverbially here, and qualifies "go".
MrP
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