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Hanyu
An 'adjective' in a sentence. 'He shouted himself hoarse.'
'Hoarse' is an adjective, meaning 'sounding rough and unpleasant, especially because of a sore throad'. Then in some sentences like 'He screamed/shouted himeself hoarse'.
It's not understandable to me. If it says 'He made himeself hoarse', then I know, as we can put an adjective in 'make sb/sth adj'. Here I can't make it.
Can you help explain the use of 'hoarse'? Thanks in advance.Can it be seen as a set phrase? Or Because 'to become hoarse' is a following state of 'to shout', then 'hoarse' rather than 'hoarsely' is understandable.
5 Thg 09 2015 15:38
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Hunter,
This is a classic English sentence structure. The components are:
Subject + verb + object + object complement
Examples:
Her husband drove her mad.
I painted the town red.
The movie made her famous.
His behaviour made me sick.
5 tháng 9 năm 2015
Here's an academic paper on something called cross-componential causativity
:http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~ctjhuang/PKU_lectures/Lecture_2/Li.Yafei.1999.pdf,
It compares Chinese and English syntax and may ( or may not) answer your question.
Failing that, you could just accept the phrase as it is. Think of it as a shorthand version of saying 'He shouted (until he was) hoarse'.
5 tháng 9 năm 2015
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