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Silak12 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Bring him hungry..adverb?

Hi, everyone.

Could you tell me whether the word "hungry" is an adverb in this sentence?

And is the unecessary here?

I advise you to bring him in hungry the next time you are here for the checkup.

Thanks!

  

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I advise you to bring him in hungry ( the ) next time you are here for the check-up . It's an adjective, and "the" is optional. e.

— BillJ

  • I advise you to bring him in hungry ( the ) next time you are here for the check-up .
  • It's an adjective, and "the" is optional.
  • e.
  • "hungry".
  • Items like this are called 'predicative adjuncts': predicative because they relate to a predicand (in this case, "him"), and adjuncts because they are optional items in clause structure.
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I advise you to bring him in hungry (the) next time you are here for the check-up.

It's an adjective, and "the" is optional.

The salient interpretation is that "hungry" relates to "him", where it describes the physical state he should be in, i.e. "hungry".

Items like this are called 'predicative adjuncts': predicative because they rel

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