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Persian Learner Posted 10 years ago
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Stare horrified

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He stared horrified.

Is 'stare' a linking verb here, which an adjective comes after it as the subject complement?
  

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This is an interesting question for a native speaker. You might interpret this in several ways:

1. "Stare" has a quasi-linking verb function here, equivalent to: "He was horrified."

2. "Horrified," normally an adjective, is being used, unconventionally, as an adverb, modifying "stare."

3. The sentence is actually elliptical, and the complete sentence would be: "He
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Persian LearnerIs 'stare' a linking verb here, which an adjective comes after it as the subject complement?
Good try. It's something like that, though we don't say that 'stare' is a linking verb in this kind of case. That would allow hundreds of verbs to be reclassified as linking verbs. You have a secondary predication of the subject here, i.e., a subject-
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Is the following sentence a subject-oriented secondary predicate?

All men are created equal.
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Persian LearnerIs the following sentence a subject-oriented secondary predicate?All men are created equal.
That could be the subject of debate. To my ear it doesn't have exactly the right qualities. The primary predication is not complete in itself. All men are created. ~ All men are made. ( ? ) For this reason 'are created' seems to me more like a
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