My strange desire to always be grammatically correct took over again today. Near the end of church service, an announcement was made about some park event, and the speaker reminded us to "dress warm." For the rest of the service (which wasn't too long so I don't feel guilty), I couldn't pay attention because I wasn't sure if it should be "dress warm" or "dress warmly." The situation seems to call for an adverb, but in the case of "dress warmly," that seems to imply putting on clothes in a warm fashion--which makes no sense. Perhaps it compares to the case of "look happy" and "look happily," where the former indicates appearing to be happy while the latter denotes looking around in a jovial state.
What do you think?
And I write this post with full realization that my co-bloggers are from some of the tech-iest schools around. I have faith in your rhetorical skills!
2 comments:
I believe the correct grammar usage is "dress warm". As you have already stated, to "dress warmly" would imply putting on clothes in a warm fashion. The "dress" in "dress warm" acts as a state-of-being verb or I believe the official term for this verb is a stative verb. Because the verb denotes a state rather than an action, an adjective is needed after the verb rather than an adverb.
agreed.
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