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Fold blue 756 Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

It's a poached salmon caught fresh or freshly?

I'm EFL learner.

While I'm reading an dialogue, there was a sentence: I'ts a poached salmon caught fresh today.

In 'salmon caught fresh', the verb 'caught' couldn't be modified by 'fresh' because it is adjective. So, salmon caught freshly(adverb) today does make sense to me.

Could you explain to me why the sentence is wrote in that way?

  

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fold blue 756 Could you explain to me why the sentence is wrote written in that way? The salmon is fresh because it was caught today. It was caught while it was fresh.

— CalifJim

  • fold blue 756 Could you explain to me why the sentence is wrote written in that way?
  • The salmon is fresh because it was caught today.
  • It was caught while it was fresh.
  • It's fresh salmon.
  • Some grammarians might give this a fancy name and say that "fresh" is a subject-oriented (depictive) secondary predication.
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fold blue 756Could you explain to me why the sentence is wrote written in that way?

The salmon is fresh because it was caught today. It was caught while it was fresh. It's fresh salmon.

Some grammarians might give this a fancy name and say that "fresh" is a subject-oriented (depictive)

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fold blue 756

I'm EFL learner.

While I'm reading an dialogue, there was a sentence: I'ts a poached salmon caught fresh today.

In 'salmon caught fresh', the verb 'caught' couldn't be modified by 'fresh' because it is adjective. So, salmon caught freshly(adverb) today does make sense to me.

Could you explain to me why the sent

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fold blue 756Could you explain to me why the sentence is wrote in that way?

This is a curious little wrinkle in the language. It seems to me that the sense is "caught afresh", but we don't talk that way any more, so "fresh" gets waved in as an adverb with that meaning.

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fold blue 756 It's a poached salmon caught fresh today.

The word order is significant. Fresh has different meanings.

It's a poached salmon caught fresh today.

The state of the salmon was "fresh" when it was caught.. Fresh => in its natural state, alive.

It's a poached salmon, freshly caught. It was caught recently. Freshly = a v

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