Monday, April 6, 2015

grammaticality - Using adjectives after verbs?

In a lot of sentences when speaking people use adjectives after verbs. In some examples it sounds right, however, and I was wondering if such uses were valid in formal writing.



The only example I can think of:



"I'm hungry," she said, shocked.



There are of course many cases in which I'm sure doing such a thing is incorrect:



He ran slow




I ate quick



But I ask about less blatantly incorrect examples such as the first one above.

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