Talk:everywhere

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Preposition (both senses):

  1. In or to all locations under discussion.
    He delivers the mail everywhere on this street.
    We went everywhere at the school - we talked to all the teachers in their classrooms.
  2. (colloquial) In or to a few or more locations.
    We went to Europe last year and went everywhere: Berlin, Paris, London, and Madrid.
    When I shop for shoes, I like to look everywhere.
    I've looked everywhere in the house and still can't find my glasses.

All the usexes look adverbial to me. DCDuring TALK 20:00, 5 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

They look adverbial to me too. Combining two prepositions into one (e.g., "everywhere on", "everywhere at", "everywhere in"...) looks suspect to me... The fourth usex in particular couldn't possibly be a preposition. —AugPi 20:45, 5 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
This looks a new-fangled zero preposition, suitable for a supplementary category, not a PoS header. I had the same problem with nowhere. DCDuring TALK 21:01, 5 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

Changed back from ===Preposition=== to ===Adverb===. —RuakhTALK 13:31, 7 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

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