Talk:next to nothing
Latest comment: 12 years ago by TAKASUGI Shinji in topic Not PP
Not PP[edit]
This is not a prepositional phrase. The structure is not like he is standing next to nothing but rather like there are next to no eggs, where next to is modifying no, a determiner.--Brett 01:37, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
- I was wondering about that. In the usage example it is the object of the preposition "for". It can be an object of a transitive verb like pay. And occasionally a subject. So a noun phrase it is. DCDuring TALK 04:23, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
- It is rather a pronoun just like nothing. You can replace it with nothing grammatically, and you cannot say *the next to nothing. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 00:19, 21 October 2011 (UTC)