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Poll: We arrived tired.

We arrived tired.

'Tired' is an adjective here.
'Tired' is an adverb here.

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  • Votes: 507
  • Comments: 1
  • Added: May 2005

Comments:

Vidableek

In this sentence, tired cannot be an adverb unless it was rearranged to "We tiredly arrived", which sounds weird.

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