TheParser
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Martha: I hear that X died last week.
Tom: Oh, no!!! Is he REALLY dead?
(Regular order for diagramming: He is REALLY dead.)
I think that some teachers would suggest that we diagram "really"
as an adverb modifying "is." (I guess we definitely could not diagram
it as modifying "dead" because one is either dead or not dead.)
If I understand correctly a scholarly paper I read on the Web,
it seems to suggest that "really" modifies the whole sentence. That is,
"really" = it is a fact/ in reality, etc.
For example, one sometimes hears this:
Martha: I hear that X died last week.
Tom: For real? (Is that a real, true fact?)
I would appreciate your views.
THANK YOU
Tom: Oh, no!!! Is he REALLY dead?
(Regular order for diagramming: He is REALLY dead.)
I think that some teachers would suggest that we diagram "really"
as an adverb modifying "is." (I guess we definitely could not diagram
it as modifying "dead" because one is either dead or not dead.)
If I understand correctly a scholarly paper I read on the Web,
it seems to suggest that "really" modifies the whole sentence. That is,
"really" = it is a fact/ in reality, etc.
For example, one sometimes hears this:
Martha: I hear that X died last week.
Tom: For real? (Is that a real, true fact?)
I would appreciate your views.
THANK YOU