My instincts see "look like" in its two senses as a verb-particle idiom functioning as a linking verb. As for Martha Kolln's sentence, "wild" strikes me as adverbial, since the flowers themselves may be prim, but the unfettered growing is wild. It is easy to find examples of modifiers seeming to modify both the subject noun and the verb. My grammar and usage students use ENGLISH FUNDAMENTALS, 10th ed., as their source for traditional grammar. We were only three sentences into examining the roles of subordinate clauses (pg 339) when we hit this sentence: (1) The scenery collapsed at the moment when Gene stepped out from the wings. Collapsed when? Or moment when? Adverb, or adjective clause? Probably and adverbial prepositional phrase containing time elements, but it is easy to see how subordinate elements can be ambiguous in their constituency. For example: (2) Walking home, John found a dollar. I find it just as easy to see the initial phrase as describing John as describing the conditions under which he found something. In fact, traditional grammar, I believe, accepts the reduced clause, "Walking home," as an adjective, but sees the fully realized clause, "As he was walking home," as an adverb. Perhaps both are better understood as "sentence modifiers" or "absolute" constructions that don't clearly participate in the grammar of the sentence except to remark on the whole. --Bill Murdick