Question

WHICH PART OF SPEECH IS LEFT

Answer 1

Two plausible options exist:

• Left could be a predicate adjective with ‘was’ the linking verb and ‘nothing’ the subject.

OR

• Left could be the main part of a passive voice verb, as in, "Nothing was left." Before changing this into the active voice, we would need to determine who or what the agent (the doer of the action) is. So, we might reword the sentence in the passive to say, "Nothing was left by the tornado." In the active, we could then say, "The tornado left nothing."