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Healer Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

How worry are you?

I heard the captioned sentence from a radio talkback host.

Is the above grammatically correct? I have supposed “how”can’t go with verb but adjectives or adverbs.

Could it be “how worried are you?”

  

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healer How worry are you? Ungrammatical. healer How worried are you?

— CalifJim

  • healer How worry are you?
  • Ungrammatical.
  • healer How worried are you?
  • Correct.
  • There may have been a misprint — unless they were trying to be funny.
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healer How worry are you?

Ungrammatical.

healerHow worried are you?

Correct.

There may have been a misprint — unless they were trying to be funny.

By the way,

healera radio talkback host

a radio talk host

CJ

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