Part of Speech Question

[missmollie]

In the following sentence, which parts of speech are the words all and home: The dog and cat ran all the way home.

 

[5jj]

I would say that all is is functioning as a determiner here, home as an adverb.

 

[Frank Antonson]

That's a good question!

I agree about "home" You could take "all the way" out and it would be clear that "home" answers "where".

Regarding "all the way"???? Think of a couple thinking about going "all the way". Could it be replaced by "completely" or "entirely". Then you might call it a "phrasal adverb". But, really, at the moment, I can't say.

If "the way" is what they ran, as in "I walked the way to Santiago de Compostela, " "way" could be considered a noun acting as the direct object and could be modified by the (in this case) adjective answering the question "how much of".

An interesting question.