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My Celine Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Verb + Adj

Are the folowing sentences correct?

E.g.: I grow up healthy

E.g.: I grow up mature.
  

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Hello. Your mistakes were "healthy" and "mature", 'cause these words have to be, in your sentences, adverbs. Look: I grow up healthly.

  • Hello.
  • Your mistakes were "healthy" and "mature", 'cause these words have to be, in your sentences, adverbs.
  • Look: I grow up healthly.
  • I grow up maturely.
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Hello. Your mistakes were "healthy" and "mature", 'cause these words have to be, in your sentences, adverbs.

Look:

I grow up healthly.

I grow up maturely.

Here, you have an explanation about adverbs: http://www.englishc
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Is there any chance you meant "I grew up (and I became) healthy"?
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Hello My Celine

I'll change your tense, as the present seems odd in this context:

1. I grew up healthy.

2. I grew up healthily.

Both are fine. In #1, your period of growth ended in a state of health. In #2, healthy practices accompanied your period of growth.

So in #1, you may not have eaten muesli, taken frequent exercise, etc., but the result is a 'he

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