He walks two kilometers every day.
Is two kilometers a adverb here?
Which is more appropriate:
He moved two inches.
He moved by two inches.
Explain.
Thank you.
asked Mar 29, 2019 at 15:19
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In your sentence He walks two kilometers every day, He is a subject,walks is a transitive verb,two kilometers is a noun,every day is an adverb. So the structure of this sentence is subject + transitive verb + noun + adverb.
He moved two inches should be the more appropriate than He moved by two inches He is a subject, moved is a transitive verb,two inches is a noun. The structure of this sentence is subject + transitive verb + noun. Please refer to the explanation of Move and take a look at I'm so cold I can't move my fingers
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He moved a foot can be parsed in two completely different ways. 1) He moved one of his feet (or feasibly even someone else's foot, in a contrived context), and 2) He moved [himself] a distance of one foot (12 inches). Syntactically, I'd say the NP in #2 is functioning adverbially, even if it looks a bit like a noun. Commented Mar 29, 2019 at 17:17