spring starts cold and rainy/rainily

[xiaoen]

In Canada, spring starts cold and rainy and gets warm and sunny.

Hi,
"cold" has been used as an adverb.
but "rainy" is not an adverb it's an adjective.
Isn't "rainy" wrong in there?
Shouldn't it be "rainily"?

I mean => spring starts cold and rainily.

 

[GoesStation]

Aren't both cold and rainy adjectives, modifying spring?

 

[xiaoen]

I took a picture of the page of my book.
I have completed the blanks by a red font but I don't know what I should write in the blank number 3 "rainy" or "rainily".

The exercise has asked us to fill in the blanks according to the words used in the Reading.

What should I write in the blank number 3?

 

[SoothingDave]

I looked up "rainily" to see if it's an actual word. I've never used it, or seen it used. So, that should tell you something.

Also, if you think it should be "rainily," why don't you think it should be "coldly?"

 

[xiaoen]

GS told you that they thought the answer was 'rainy'. I agreed. Nobody has so far disagreed. Does that give you a clue?

But in "spring starts rainy" it's as if "starts" means "becomes" => "spring becomes rainy".

I have never seen such a construction=> to start + adjective

"start" is a verb. So, only adverbs (rainily) modify verbs.

That's why I am confused that how "rainy" as an adjective works with a verb "start"

 

[xiaoen]

I know it modifies "spring" but after a verb we should use an adverb not an adjective.

"rainy" is an adjective not an adverb.

This is my first time that I see such a construction => to start + adjective

Never seen such a use before.

 

[SoothingDave]

"Start" is acting like a "stative verb" here. It's not describing an action, it is describing a state.

 

[GoesStation]

George is healthy/[STRIKE]healthily[/STRIKE].

Note my little correction above.

 

[xiaoen]

"Start" is acting like a "stative verb" here. It's not describing an action, it is describing a state.

Now I completely understood it. Thank you.

 

[xiaoen]

I went on one of those Manchester days that starts rainy, gets rainier and stays so rainy that you find yourself entertaining the thought that it might never stop.

http://fraze.it/n_search.jsp?q=starts+rainy&l=0


Can we say that the bold written part means "becomes rainy"?

 

[SoothingDave]

It begins rainy. Early in the day it is rainy.

 

[GoesStation]

I went on one of those Manchester days that starts rainy, gets rainier and stays so rainy that you find yourself entertaining the thought that it might never stop.

http://fraze.it/n_search.jsp?q=starts+rainy&l=0


Can we say that the bold written part means "becomes rainy"?

No, because that implies that it wasn't rainy at first. Starts rainy means rain was falling from the moment the day began.

 

[Tdol]

Manchester can be very rainy, which is what is being described here. It rains from the beginning, rather than becoming rainy later on.

 

[xiaoen]

I went on one of those Manchester days that starts (when it's) rainy, gets rainier and stays so rainy that you find yourself entertaining the thought that it might never stop.

Can we say that in fact the red part exists in the sentence meaning but it's just not written?

 

[GoesStation]

I went on one of those Manchester days that starts (when it's) rainy, gets rainier and stays so rainy that you find yourself entertaining the thought that it might never stop.

Can we say that in fact the red part exists in the sentence meaning but it's just not written?

No. That would suggest that the day doesn't start until the rain begins.

You could rewrite the sentence this way: I went on one of those Manchester days that is rainy to begin with, gets rainier and stays so rainy that you find yourself entertaining the thought that it might never stop.

 

[xiaoen]

In Canada, spring starts cold and rainy and gets warm and sunny.
I went on one of those Manchester days that starts rainy.


Thank you.
And could you please tell me what kind of grammar they use? I want to google it so that I can learn such grammar more.
These sentences are called what? I want to study such constructions more.
Do these sentences have specific label or names?

 

[Matthew Wai]

I suspect 'starts' functions as a linking verb, and its following adjectives are the subject complements.