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User talk:Sae1962 Dec 24th 2012, 08:34 ‎ausgegraut: ← Older revision Revision as of 08:34, 24 December 2012 Line 282: Line 282:   Looks like past participle of {{term|ausgrauen}} to me, and possible an adjective, but not an adverb. (But I'm only de-1) [[User:SemperBlotto|SemperBlotto]] ([[User talk:SemperBlotto|talk]]) 08:26, 24 December 2012 (UTC)   Looks like past participle of {{term|ausgrauen}} to me, and possible an adjective, but not an adverb. (But I'm only de-1) [[User:SemperBlotto|SemperBlotto]] ([[User talk:SemperBlotto|talk]]) 08:26, 24 December 2012 (UTC)   :Hmm, you may be write. But what about the sentence "The widgets ''are'' grayed out"? Here, grayed out is specifying what ''is''. So, it should be an adverb in this case. Of course, when one says that "There are grayed-out widgets in this GUI", it is clearly an adjective. --[[User:Sae1962|Sae1962]] ([[User talk:Sae1962|talk]]) 08:31, 24 December 2012 (UTC)   :Hmm, you may be write. But what about the sentence "The widgets ''are'' grayed out"? Here, grayed out is specifying what ''is''. So, it should be an adverb in this case. Of course, when one says that "There are grayed-out widgets in this GUI", it is clearly an adjective. --[[User:Sae1962|Sae1962]] ([[User talk:Sae1962|talk]]) 08:31, 24 December 2012 (UTC)   + ::That looks like a past participle usage (in English). Adverbs apply to verbs other than "to be" - there's a grammatical way of saying that, but I've forgotten it. [[User:SemperBlotto|SemperBlotto]] ([[User talk:SemperBlotto|talk]]) 08:34, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

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