0
Healer Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

How worry are you?

I heard the captioned sentence from a radio talkback host.

Is the above grammatically correct? I have supposed “how”can’t go with verb but adjectives or adverbs.

Could it be “how worried are you?”

  

Top answer

healer How worry are you? Ungrammatical. healer How worried are you?

Free · every Monday

Get the Weekly English Kit 📬

New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.

1 Answers
0
healer How worry are you?

Ungrammatical.

healerHow worried are you?

Correct.

There may have been a misprint — unless they were trying to be funny.


By the way,

healera radio talkback host

a radio talk host

CJ