Re: English question
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 1, 2001, 0:29 |
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Padraic Brown wrote:
> > > > "He felt good."
> It's like "She listens good", etc.
"She listens good" is impossible in my idiolect. I've certainly heard
forms like that, but it sounds uneducated to me. I'd say "She listens
well". For that matter, would you call "old" an adverb in "He felt
old"? It can't be used as an adverb anywhere else (*"he ran old").
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