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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

sleep/live rough

When you sleep/live rough, you *feel rough (of the ground)* and sleep/live (on the ground)?
I know "sleep/live rough" is "be hobo". What I ask you about is whether you feel that the expression "feel rough of the ground" is strange or not.
  

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Yeah, it's a little strange. I might try "feel the rough of the ground", using poetic license to make "rough" a noun. It is a noun, but not in this definition.

— Enoon

  • Yeah, it's a little strange.
  • I might try "feel the rough of the ground", using poetic license to make "rough" a noun.
  • It is a noun, but not in this definition.
  • To be safe, you could make it "feel the roughness of the ground".
  • In either case, the article is necessary.
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Yeah, it's a little strange. I might try "feel the rough of the ground", using poetic license to make "rough" a noun. It is a noun, but not in this definition. To be safe, you could make it "feel the roughness of the ground". In either case, the article is necessary.
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enoon"feel the rough of the ground"
Poetic or not, this just sounds plain wrong and awkward. I can’t imagine why anyone would decide not to use the suffix.
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Aspara GusPoetic or not, this just sounds plain wrong and awkward.
You might say it sounds rough.
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