Tuongvan Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
drunk or drunken
Dear teachers,
As far as I know "drunken" not "drunk" is used before a noun, but in advanced Cambridge dictionary it says: " Drunk drivers are a menace to everybody"
Could you possibly explain why?
Thank you in advance
As far as I know "drunken" not "drunk" is used before a noun, but in advanced Cambridge dictionary it says: " Drunk drivers are a menace to everybody"
Could you possibly explain why?
Thank you in advance
Top answer
Both can be used as an attributive adjective, but I think 'drunk driver' may have attained the status of fixed expression . Police take advantage of a Drunk Girl Drunk dialing is a pop-culture term denoting an instance in which an intoxicated individual places phone calls 10-year-old crashes van while driving drunk parents home
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Both can be used as an attributive adjective, but I think 'drunk driver' may have attained the status of fixed expression.
Police take advantage of a Drunk Girl
Drunk dialing is a pop-culture term denoting an instance in which an intoxicated individual places phone calls
10-year-old crashes van while driving drunk parents home
Both can be used as an attributive adjective, but I think 'drunk driver' may have attained the status of fixed expression.
Police take advantage of a Drunk Girl
Drunk dialing is a pop-culture term denoting an instance in which an intoxicated individual places phone calls
10-year-old crashes van while driving drunk parents home
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