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Tuongvan Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

drunk or drunken

Dear teachers,

As far as I know "drunken" not "drunk" is used before a noun, but in advanced Cambridge dictionary it says: " Drunk drivers are a menace to everybody"

Could you possibly explain why?

Thank you in advance
  

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Both can be used as an attributive adjective, but I think 'drunk driver' may have attained the status of fixed expression . Police take advantage of a Drunk Girl Drunk dialing is a pop-culture term denoting an instance in which an intoxicated individual places phone calls 10-year-old crashes van while driving drunk parents home

  • Both can be used as an attributive adjective, but I think 'drunk driver' may have attained the status of fixed expression .
  • Police take advantage of a Drunk Girl Drunk dialing is a pop-culture term denoting an instance in which an intoxicated individual places phone calls 10-year-old crashes van while driving drunk parents home
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Both can be used as an attributive adjective, but I think 'drunk driver' may have attained the status of fixed expression.

Police take advantage of a Drunk Girl
Drunk dialing is a pop-culture term denoting an instance in which an intoxicated individual places phone calls
10-year-old crashes van while driving drunk parents home

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