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Sup /lit/erati, any linguists in the house?

I need help parsing this sentence: I ran from home.

What does the "from home" prepositional phrase modify? Does it hang from just the verb or the sentence as a whole?

How about this sentence: I started by running from home.

>> No.703740

'from home' modifies the verb phrase 'ran' and 'from' is a Prep phrase, home is the object of the preposition 'home.'

>> No.703741

>>703740
Fuck I meant object of the preposition 'from.' sorry OP

>> No.703754
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703754

>wouldn't it be awesome if she were holding Lolita.
>oh wait

What is the name of the collection of books she is holding/is present in the background?
Sorry I can't help with your linguistic problem.

>> No.703765

>>703741
thx

>>703754
I think those are from some publisher in the Netherlands (at least from what I can google).

>> No.703782

>>703765
belgium i've heard before