Timeline for What function does 'open' have in 'She pushed open the door'?
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| Apr 20, 2021 at 0:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1384296165420666881 | ||
| Aug 13, 2016 at 3:20 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | "The pattern 'push sth + adj. ' is found in Oxford English dictionary for advanced learners and there is an example sentence: I pushed the door open. So can I think that 'open' in this sentence is an adjective?" -- Yes. My general advice is the sooner you separate the part of speech from the function, the less confused you will be. E.g., if you confused what it is with what it does, you might think, because Safety in Safety is important is a noun, a to-infinitive can be a noun(!) too, like in To err is human. (And, really, some books will tell you so. No wonder it's confusing!) | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 13:56 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | From one of the answers to one of the earlier questions, So you could say that "open" is the new state, and thus an adjective, or that it's the direction or manner in which it was scraped, and is thus an adverb. These "part of speech" category names are a broad brush that aren't always useful in every context. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 13:47 | comment | added | Ming Lu | The reason why I think that way is explained in the main question description block. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 13:42 | history | edited | Ming Lu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 10, 2016 at 13:40 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Please explain why you think the syntactic breakdown of slide open should be any different to that of push open. @You might also consider, for example, “scraped open a grave” Why two successive verbs? (and doubtless many others) which I think covers exactly the same issue. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 13:27 | history | edited | Ming Lu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 10, 2016 at 13:22 | history | edited | ColleenV | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 10, 2016 at 13:12 | comment | added | Ming Lu | In my opinion, this is not a duplicate of "The front door slid open" grammar explanation – FumbleFingers. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 13:10 | history | edited | Ming Lu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 10, 2016 at 13:07 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 10, 2016 at 12:50 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Possible duplicate of "The front door slid open" grammar explanation | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 12:32 | answer | added | JavaLatte | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 12:20 | answer | added | LawrenceC | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 12:13 | history | asked | Ming Lu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |