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Originally Posted by bianca  He pushed the door open.
My opinion is:
1. The syntactical pattern in the sentence is:
Subject (he) - Predicate (aux.verb: pushed) - Object (the door)- Predicate (adj: open). |
I like your analysis and I have one question: Isn't
pushed the main verb? Why 'aux'?
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"Open" is never an adverb (openly is), and no way a prepostion! It can only be a verb or an adjective.
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Open can be an adverb, just as
wide in
open wide is an adverb. The following is from
The Particularity of Particles, bottom of page 6:
The claim that particles are intransitive prepositions [they don't take a object]also raises a problem for some particle-like elements that are not prepositional, such as open in push open the door, short in cut short the speech, and go in let go the rope, all of which can appear in the particle position.
All the best.
