Re: English question
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 2, 2001, 4:08 |
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Andreas Johansson wrote:
> You don't have "he looks old"? Or would you consider that "old" to be an
> adjective?
I'd consider it to be an adjective. "Old" doesn't modify "look". (He
looks in an old manner? He looks at things as if he were old?) Old
modifies "he".
> (To my non-native ears, "he ran old" sounds like a contraction of "he ran
> while being old". Any native that feels the same?)
"He ran old" would make no sense to me. I might after some thought
figure out that "He, being old, ran" or something like that was meant.
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