Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell has warned that a full US economic recovery may take until the end of next year
In my opinion, take is a transitive verb. Does "until the end of next year" here act as a noun?
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Sign up to join this communityFederal Reserve chair Jay Powell has warned that a full US economic recovery may take until the end of next year
In my opinion, take is a transitive verb. Does "until the end of next year" here act as a noun?
Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell has warned that a full US economic recovery may take until the end of next year.
No: "take" can be transitive ("take a card"), but in your example it is intransitive.
"Until the end of the year" is a preposition phrase functioning as complement of "take". It has a temporal meaning.
We know it's a complement because it's obligatory; its omission would render the sentence ungrammatical.
"Until the end of next year" is acting as an adverb. It modifies the verb.
The original sentence is odd wording. I think most English speakers would have said "will LAST until ..." or "will CONTINUE until ..."
Yes, "take" is, or can be, a transitive verb. But just because a verb is transitive doesn't mean that the words that follow it must be the object of the verb. If I said, "Bob will take a cookie", then yes, a cookie is the thing Bob is taking. But if I said, "Bob will take selfishly", "selfishly" is not the thing he is taking. It is an adverb describing how he takes.