I see this sentence "In order to explore this city unencumbered, I left my luggage at the station" Why is an adjective "unencumbered" used here? I think it should be changed into "uncencumberedly" because adverb grammatically follows verb.
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"Unencumbered" is an adjective serving as a predicative adjunct: predicative because it relates to a predicand (the covert subject "I", or "me"), and an adjunct because it's a modifier in clause structure, i.e. it's part of the verb phrase "to explore this city unencumbered".– BillJCommented Dec 26, 2018 at 9:31
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Actually "unencumbered" doesn't modify the verb "explore" here in this sentence.
The verb "left" causes the adjective condition "unencumbered", so the adjective modifies the noun as subject in this case. So now we are actually saying "I left my luggage at the station to explore this city, feeling unencumbered."
Please correct me if it's a misconception. Thx mates.
P.S. Here is some other people discussing the same grammar question about verb followed by adjective: Action Verb followed by Adjective?
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Yes it can be used as a predicative adjective. Example: "When you want to try all manner of wicked and wild moves on the surfboard, you need a good pair of freestyle board shorts to let you do whatever you want while feeling completely unencumbered." Just feel free to use it :) Commented Dec 26, 2018 at 7:49
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And what kind of this sentence? I want to learn more about it. Commented Dec 26, 2018 at 10:02
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1Left has nothing to do with it here. You’re correct that unencumbered modifies the subject (which is I in the matrix clause), but it would do regardless of which verb happened to be in the matrix clause. Commented Dec 26, 2018 at 11:00