Suddenly the door opened, and in rushed Michelle.
2007-03-21 13:21:09 · 23 answers · asked by Chitownpride 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
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2007-03-21 13:23:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. It's a preposition. An adjective describes something; a blue book, a big house, an enormous elephant. An adverb answers the question, how, when or where, and usually ends in the letters, "LY"; John laughed heartily when he heard the joke (how). Mary soon realized she failed the test. (when) A preposition denotes direction or placement. "in rushed Michelle. Turn the sentence around, and it reads, "Michelle rushed in." "In" is a preposition. The adverb in the sentence you cite, is "Suddenly" It answers the question how, and it ends in LY. The beginning of your sentence is actually an adverbial phrase that connects the compound sentences. The parts of speech in that sentence are: Adverb, adjective (article), noun, verb, conjunction, preposition, verb and noun. I hope you aren't more confused than ever! Good luck!
2007-03-21 13:53:31 · answer #2 · answered by gldjns 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
where did she rush? she rushed in...so altho I don't remember much about conjugating sentences, I would say it is an adverb. An adjective comes before a noun, not before a verb. Another way to phrase this would be "michelle rushed in", but then I imagine an english teacher would say "Michelle rushed into the room." Because the others would be sentence fragments???Perhaps??
Preposition also sounds good.
2007-03-21 13:26:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"In" is usually a preposition starting an adjectival or an adverbial phrase. In this case, however, it is an adverb modifying the verb "rushed". It tells you where Michelle rushed. Here "in" is the opposite of "out" and both are adverbs. If you wanted to expand the sentence you could say Michelle rushed "into the room" or "out of the room". "In" and "out" are still adverbs with the prepositions "to" and "of" starting adverbial phrases modifying them.
2007-03-21 15:16:56 · answer #4 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It describes the way Michelle rushed, so it's describing a verb, therefore it's an adverb if you have to choose between adverb or adjective.
2007-03-21 13:32:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Still a preposition, because in your mind you would read it as -----
Suddenly the door opened, and Michelle rushed in (to the building).
You have to do that in order to get the proper usage.
Michelle rushed (where)----in---(to a building)
2007-03-21 13:28:32 · answer #6 · answered by LINDA D. 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i presumed this would be a ingenious writing question, wherein case the respond would have been common - save adverbs, fantastically -lly adverbs to a minimum. How approximately Arseificariously Arsificatory Occulty ? EDIT : Kel has have been given it !!!!
2016-12-15 05:50:37 · answer #7 · answered by fechter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's neither....I believe that it's a preposition. If there was a phrase that followed the preposition, I think it was be an adverb phrase, but the word "in" itself is a preposition.
2007-03-21 13:24:53 · answer #8 · answered by smartchick876 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Adverb, modifies rushed.
2007-03-21 13:24:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's neither...an adjective is a describing word: beautiful, fat, skinny, ugly, etc. while an adverb shows how something is done: quickly, slowly, weirdly...
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2007-03-21 13:24:19 · answer #10 · answered by *ReJeCtEd* 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adjectives are describing words that describe the subject or object. 'In' is not a describing word. I would call it a preposition.
2007-03-21 14:00:35 · answer #11 · answered by Im Listening 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋