Meaning of “He preferred eating beef, raw and salty”
He preferred eating beef, raw and salty.
What does this sentence mean?
He preferred eating beef that is raw and salty.
He preferred eating beef in the way beef is raw and salty.
1 or 2 according to context.
I would choose 3 because we can see "raw and salty" as an adjectival group to simply modify "beef" or see "raw and salty" as an adjectival group as well as used to express the way or manner of his eating beef.
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raw and salty is not a way of eating anything. The answer is 1. ) By the way, if you want a nice expression for "raw and salty", it's an object-oriented depictive secondary predicate according to some grammarians.
- raw and salty is not a way of eating anything.
- The answer is 1.
- ) By the way, if you want a nice expression for "raw and salty", it's an object-oriented depictive secondary predicate according to some grammarians.
- CJ
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raw and salty is not a way of eating anything.
The answer is 1.
(There should not be a comma in that sentence, by the way.)
By the way, if you want a nice expression for "raw and salty", it's an object-oriented depictive secondary predicateaccording to some grammarians.
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