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Parsing requested
From:
Dick Veit <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:16:56 -0400
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In a post yesterday, I used the verb phrase "bugs the hell out of me." Can
we try to parse that? Is "the hell" a direct object? An adverbial? Or is it
just an unanalyzable idiom--after all, it doesn't analyze semantically.

Dick

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