There are other words that can follow 'shot' that indicate something about the result of the shooting:
He shot that poor boy so bad. (From the song Stagger Lee!)
I shot him good. Damn near killed him.
He shot the bar up.
He shot him down (like a dog).
I shot him full of holes.
He shot it apart.
Whatever word-class dictionaries assign them, these all seem to function as predicate complements, which makes them 'adjectival' if you must assign them a class in the cases under consideration.
The 'good' and 'bad' examples are, erm, informal, but illustrate the grammar. The 'up' and 'down' examples could be construed as phrasal verbs, but 'up' and 'down' are not "modifying" 'shot'. The last three show words indicating result. 'Through and through' is an idiom usually considered an adverb, but word-class does not fully determine function. 'Full of holes' is clearly adjectival and 'apart' arguably so.
No comments:
Post a Comment