I’m watching dedicated grammar videos, and I’m not sure whether some of them can be adjective or noun because they were not mentioned as an option in the class. I just want to make sure they are okay functionally or not.
before they could be gracefully ‘verb’. Greg said it’s verb, but can’t it be adjective as well? because gracefully can modify adjective as well.
Yeah, it can be used as adjective, for example, It is was a gracefully smooth transition.
Here, it is, however, definitely a verb because could be gracefully executed is a passive construction.
No, It can’t be a noun, at least in this context, because you are describing a noun, which is the subject in this sentence, the results
No it can’t be an adjective in this context because it is describing a noun, so it does work as more of a noun than of an adjective.
Let’s parse it,
(Pop Culture) → Noun
(as a key for deciphering the myths, hopes, and fears of contemporary society) → Preposition Phrase
Inside this preposition phrase, as a key → A preposition phrase for deciphering the myths, hopes, and fears of contemporary society → (Again, this is also a preposition phrase)
Interestingly again, of contemporary society - This is also a preposition phrase
Typically, the structure of a preposition phrase is something like this:
