I am always stunned by the depth of grammatical memory my students retain. It's the kind of memory that is borne of understanding, not memorization or gimmicks.
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So if you see that in a phrase or sentence, and you wonder what it's doing, how can you tell? Look at the superstructure.
My mind was blown by the fact that Kristine, who is FOUR YEARS OLD, had instantaneously groked that the colors, all of them, were some kind of system.
"Okay, first, I hate to be a Marian the Librarian, but you don’t feel badly, you feel bad." ~John Oliver
What I mostly love to show my students is how the suffix <-ly> actually works in English. A lot of people believe – falsely – that any word that ends in an <-ly> suffix is an adverb. It's not. Here's the truth.