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Re: English question

From:Padraic Brown <agricola@...>
Date:Saturday, December 1, 2001, 2:58
Am 30.11.01, Nik Taylor yscrifef:

> 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").
I'd take that as an adjective. Padraic. -- Bethes gwaz vaz ha leal.