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Old 16-Sep-2007, 09:04
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Originally Posted by justinwschang View Post
(A) Many words can be used as more than one part of speech.
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My teacher is never late (late = adverb, never = adverb)
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I hate to disagree with you, justinwschang, but in the sentence above it's only never that is an adverb; late is the predicative adjective there. Actually, you should know that all linking verbs take the predicative adjectives (and not adverbs) as their complement.
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