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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Which way do you see it?

How do you see "look at" in the sentence below?

He stared at the moon.

1. (simple) verb + prepositional phrase (consisting of Prep + NP, in turn).
2. (complex) verb (consisting of V + Prep) and NP (as object).
  

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He - pronoun, subject stared - verb, simple past tense at the moon - adverbial prepositional phrase

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He - pronoun, subject
stared - verb, simple past tense
at the moon - adverbial prepositional phrase
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