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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork
Yes, in the sentence "He looked the fool", looked is an intransitive verb and "fool" is a predicate nominative.
That is quite differerent from "she looked nothing like her sister"
| OK. So nouns can be used as complements for the intransitive verb "look" but "nothing" cannot be, right?
So, doesn't a sentence like "He looks nothing" make any sense? Even to me it sounds weird, but I don't know if it actually doesn't make any sense or not. |
I have a hard time fitting "nothing" as a pronoun or any other other pronoun into an intransitive use of "look".
"He looks nothing" doesn't make sense to me. One could say "He looks like a nothing" (nothing turns into a noun there). :wink: