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Smeghead (rockman@REMOVETHISrealmofdreams.com) 05:09 pm UTC 01/26/07 |
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Grammar in "Left in the Dark" - Vin 02:27 pm UTC 01/26/07 |
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Badly is correct. It describes how he needs her. If he needed her bad then bad being an adjective would say that he needs her to be a bad person... or a naughty person. For an adverb you ask does it desc ribe the verb. How did he need her? He needed her badly.
> Listening to LitD this morning, and this line struck me:
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> I needed you oh so badly tonight
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> "Badly" being an adverb, doesn't this mean that the
> speaker is doing a poor job of "needing."
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> Shouldn't this properly be "needed you oh so bad" ?
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