This is interesting!  My grammar class has just been studying adverbial
nouns/objectives and at this point are both fascinated by and frustrated by
them, I think. (I'd say that's by no means an unusual or inappropriate
reaction to the English language!)  I'm trying to decide whether, how, and
when to spring this on them.  Some of them would love it--as I do.

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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar on behalf of Johanna
Rubba
Sent: Mon 11/1/2004 5:37 PM
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Subject: Re: a puzzling predicate noun



If nouns can function adverbially (e.g., "She left yesterday", "I'm
leaving tommorrow night"), then "home" is a noun funcitoning
adverbially. A nice case to argue for splitting form from function.
"Locative complement" is an adverbial slot; PPs can be there: "We took a
trip to the zoo"; and adverbs with other adverby meanings, can be there:
"Celine will take a trip soon".

I don't know what to do with examples like "journey homeward", "way
south", "an hour later", and "the week past". Only some of these can
play switcheroo: "our homeward journey", "the past week", but *"a later
hour" (different meaning), *"the south way".

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