Timeline for "Love me tender": adverb or adjective?
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| Mar 22, 2016 at 15:14 | comment | added | WS2 | @Araucaria I don't see how low can be describing music. If it were it would be an odd syntax, a bit like saying Drive the car red. It would need to be play the/some low music. In any event the low would have to go in front of the noun. Indeed we do say play soft music, as well as play music softly. | |
| Mar 22, 2016 at 13:13 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @WS2 Oh, I just realised this answer's two years old! I thought it was brand new! | |
| Mar 22, 2016 at 13:11 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @WS2 Isn't that because low is an adjective describing the noun music - as opposed to an adverb describing the action of playing music? | |
| Mar 22, 2016 at 12:52 | comment | added | rogermue | @PeterShor - Germanic tribes from the north of what today is Germany who spoke Saxon or Frisian settled in England from the 5th century onwards. That is about 1000 years before Shakespeare. | |
| Mar 22, 2016 at 12:49 | comment | added | WS2 | @Araucaria I suppose low, but that's maybe why I would choose softly. | |
| Mar 22, 2016 at 12:46 | comment | added | WS2 | @PeterShor You have clearly not been to Norfolk. They have never heard of adverbs. | |
| Mar 22, 2016 at 12:45 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @WS2 But given a choice of just those two, which would you use? | |
| Mar 22, 2016 at 12:45 | comment | added | WS2 | @Araucaria Play it softly. (I wouldn't use either low or lowly). | |
| Mar 22, 2016 at 12:41 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @WS2 Which would you use? Play the music low or Play the music lowly? | |
| Mar 29, 2014 at 1:06 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Since this has been a feature of English since before Shakespeare (one which has been largely lost in England but kept in America), I doubt it owes much to German influence. | |
| Mar 28, 2014 at 22:20 | comment | added | WS2 | There are enough people in Britain too who will say 'He speaks beautiful', but it is not due to 'German influence'. It is simply that they can't speak English properly. | |
| Mar 28, 2014 at 18:51 | history | answered | rogermue | CC BY-SA 3.0 |