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Re: English question

From:Y.Penzev <yitzchaq@...>
Date:Thursday, November 29, 2001, 8:03
Re: David Peterson
> on Wednesday, November 28, 2001 9:12 PM you wrote:
> If you were looking at English from the outside in, it's an adverb
with
> no overt marking. From the inside out...I'm not sure. It's kind of like
the
> phrase "He went home". I have no idea how it would be described within
the
> realm of English grammar. Anyone?
Trying to be as much objective as possible, I guess both 'Liberal' and 'home' in these constructions are 100% nouns (part of speech) used as 'adverbial modifiers' (sentence member). Yitzik . . .