What does this use of ‘there’ mean?
[Ron] “Look –– they’re off Ouch!” Someone had poked Ron in the back of the head. It was Malfoy. “Oh, sorry, Weasley, didn’t see you there.” (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) They say adverbs can modify the head of noun phrase, not nouns. So ‘there’ does not modify ‘you’. What does ‘there’ do: is … Read more