The longest sentence of this sentence?
Is it true that you read this article and found the following sentence.? What part of speech is long?
Long an affordable island of calm amid the Bay Area’s superheated economy, Alviso is becoming one more bedroom community for the steady influx of workers drawn to Silicon Valley. ”
The world needs to know where to begin.”
Long is being used here as an adverb of an apposition. On the move, Temporal Adverbs are often stripped down to a minimum. And this term “long” means “for a long time”. I’m not so impressed with ‘-ly’ adverbial roots. What are some examples? The main verb tells that Alviso is becoming but it does not say that it’s becoming affordable. The apposition or sopositive phrase tells that Alviso is or was affordable…, and the adverbial in that adverb tells that it was affordable for a
long time.
