Consider these examples:
They are everywhere. There is food everywhere.I used sentences like these a lot but lately I realize that everywhere is an adverb. What about those grammar rules that say “using adjective with linking verb” ?
Answer
Some “adverbials” can act as adjectives. Locatives in particular—expressions which designate a location in time or space—can modify a nominal as well as an “action”, and thus may be properly employed as the complement of a linking verb:
Elizabeth is on the left.
We are ahead of schedule.
The keys could be anywhere.
Traditional grammarians sometimes try to get around this awkward fact by claiming that these “adverbials” modify the linking verb; but this is clearly wrong, since a) this leaves the verb without a complement, and b) the same constituents can be employed in contexts where they clearly modify nominals:
The ball on the left is bigger than the ball on the right.
We’d be grateful if anybody ahead of schedule on their own project could lend a hand getting ours out the door.
Anybody anywhere can do this.
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