He threw me a rope clumsily VS He threw a clumsy rope to me ?

[Polyester]

He threw me a rope clumsily.

VS

He threw a clumsy rope to me.

Which one is correct?
OR
Are both wrong?

 

[Matthew Wai]

If you mean the movement of 'threw' was clumsy, then use the adverb 'clumsily'.

Not a teacher.

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

Polyester, if you've looked up 'clumsy' in the dictionary and found something like this, 'Difficult to handle or use; unwieldy' you could be mistaken for thinking that a rope could be clumsy, but that would not sound natural at all. If that is the sense you were after, you should use 'unwieldy'. If not, follow Matthew's advice.

 

[Matthew Wai]

'Difficult to handle or use; unwieldy'

How about 'an awkward rope'?

Not a teacher.

 

[Polyester]

So, no.1 is correct?

 

[Matthew Wai]

I think so, but I am not a teacher.

 

[emsr2d2]

I would use "He clumsily threw me a rope".

 

[Tdol]

How about 'an awkward rope'?

It doesn't work for me.

 

[tedmc]

The adjective "awkard" usually goes with situations rather than things.

not a teacher

 

[BobK]

Given the context of someone throwing you a rope, with the throw being smooth but the aim wrong (so that the catcher had to run and pick it up), 'awkward' might work - but it would sound a bit odd.

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[MikeNewYork]

Even in that context, "awkward rope" doesn't work.

 

[BobK]

It depends what you mean by "work". It would make a kind of sense to me, by analogy with expressions like "there was a guilty sweet-wrapper on the floor" - where the adjective really refers to the person who dropped it.. (Maybe this sort of anthropomorphhism is more common this side of The Pond.)

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