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Mr. Tom Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Relaxed as an adverb

Hi

Could you please tell me if we can you use "relaxed" as an adverb?

Please sit relaxed.
Why don't you sit relaxed?
Please sit easy???

Thanks,

Tom
  

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It's not an adverb, it's a predicate adjective (what some call a complement). "Sit" becomes copulative in its presence. Same goes for "easy", but that's trickier because "easy" is both an adjective and an adverb, even though we also have "easily".

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  • It's not an adverb, it's a predicate adjective (what some call a complement).
  • "Sit" becomes copulative in its presence.
  • Same goes for "easy", but that's trickier because "easy" is both an adjective and an adverb, even though we also have "easily".
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It's not an adverb, it's a predicate adjective (what some call a complement). "Sit" becomes copulative in its presence. Same goes for "easy", but that's trickier because "easy" is both an adjective and an adverb, even though we also have "easily".
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Thanks!

So, both of these are equally natural?

Sit relaxed please.
Sit easy please.

Thanks,

Tom
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I think so. I suspect that there are dialects and idiolects that wouldn't like the first of those, and it would be safer not to use it except in the lowest and highest registers, where your audience wouldn't know the difference or would have the skill to read it aright.
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