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They saw them walk home.

Is walk subjunctive?

How do you parse it?

I am confused.

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Verb + object + gerund / infinitive; e.g. see someone do / doing something
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Thank you Soup,

Guess I need more than just parsing.

Could "walk home" be considered a bare infinitive phrase, an infinitive phrase without the "to", modifying "them"?

So: Could it be called a bare infinitive acting as an adjective modifying "them"?
Or, how about a bare infinitive acting as a noun complement of "them"?

Are one of these correct?

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Could "walk home" be considered a bare infinitive phrase, an infinitive phrase without the "to", modifying "them"?
Yes. That's exactly what it is.

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Could it be called a bare infinitive acting as an adjective modifying "them"?
Or, how about a bare infinitive acting as a noun complement of "them"?
Your answer is here The Function Of Phrases (Psst. Look for Peter dashing across the quadrangle.)
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