I TOO thought of Deep Purple for adverb but then decided that "deep" is an adjective. I mean "deeply" is the adverb form right ie it is "Truly Madly Deeply"! You can have adjectives that modify adjectives I *think* but I guess you could say "I swam deep".
I DO NOT KNOW LINGUISTICS TAUGHT ME NOTHING.
Also, "They Might Be Giants" !! Good call! We are the only people who knew that was a movie first! (I bet they both just got it from the same poem or whatever, but still.)
Actually, I think in "I swam deep," deep could be a prepositional phrase... I always thought of Deep Purple as being a kind of purple, and therefore an adjective. I think even Deeply Purple would still be an adjective (it's describing the adjective!). Adverbs have to describe the verb, right? So Purple would have to be a verb in some sense...
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I DO NOT KNOW LINGUISTICS TAUGHT ME NOTHING.
Also, "They Might Be Giants" !! Good call! We are the only people who knew that was a movie first! (I bet they both just got it from the same poem or whatever, but still.)
Re: from caolan
I always thought of Deep Purple as being a kind of purple, and therefore an adjective. I think even Deeply Purple would still be an adjective (it's describing the adjective!). Adverbs have to describe the verb, right? So Purple would have to be a verb in some sense...
Anna