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In the sentence, "The runaway train went over the hill" woukd went be an auxilary verb, or would over be the adverbial?

Brain = numb from transcript analysing, I'd probably be able to figure otherwise.

Thanks in advance.

munn wrote:
> Adverbial?
> Dunno.
> But I'd say went, becasue went is the doing word.
> "over" is an adjective there, surely, because it's
> desscribing where it went, whereas "went" is telling
> you what it did.

You're probably right there. Thanks.

'over' can be a verb given the context I beleive, so 'went' could be the fashion in which the main verb was done, therefore an auxillary verb.

I'm trying to find an auxillary verb in this sodding transcript and that's the closest I've come.

English language limpens me.

Clazon wrote:
> That confuses me muchly. Surely went is just a verb and over is the
> adjective describing where it went. So simply over is adverbial.

Aha. What I thought.
Thus, we are correct.

Adverbial?
Dunno.
But I'd say went, becasue went is the doing word.
"over" is an adjective there, surely, because it's desscribing where it went, whereas "went" is telling you what it did.

Paradox: wrote:
> In the sentence, "The runaway train went over the hill"
> woukd went be an auxilary verb, or would over be the
> adverbial?


That confuses me muchly. Surely went is just a verb and over is the adjective describing where it went. So simply over is adverbial.

Why is went auxilary though?

We wouldn't be able to work out such things, we're not clever with words like you.

In the sentence, "The runaway train went over the hill" woukd went be an auxilary verb, or would over be the adverbial?

Brain = numb from transcript analysing, I'd probably be able to figure otherwise.

Thanks in advance.