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Offline JNSB

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Drawerings: Bad or badly?
« on: June 12, 2005, 01:07:49 PM »
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Draw your own conclusions.

...but please don't if you draw as bad as Slash.
This sounded wrong to me grammar wise. Shouldn't "bad" be "badly", or am I crazy? In other words, is bad used in this sentence as an adjective to describe Slash or his act of drawing, or is it an adverb (which I think it can't be, which is why we have "badly") used to modify (hmmm there's a better word than modify that should go here but I can't think of it) the verb "draw"?


 

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« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2005, 01:38:33 PM »
In this sentence, bad is modifying the verb draw (and yes, modify is the word you want there). Consider these examples:

Slash draws bad(ly).
I draw bad(ly).
I draw as bad(ly) as Slash.

Sometimes it's hard to figure out clauses and phrases with as or so because they can be so vague and ambiguous, but in this case it is indeed modifying the verb. And as such, it should have the -ly ending of adverbs (but only if you're concerned about being formally correct—in colloquial speech and writing, it's almost never a big deal).
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« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2005, 01:41:49 PM »
Awe. Hi-C. Tanks!

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« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2005, 07:06:19 PM »
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