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[–] 87 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why shoot someone that is already dead…

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    it's a british/bbc-ism I learned the last time I saw a headline like this

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Huh, I genuinely consume more British TV than I do US TV. And I'm well aware and familiar with someone getting "shot dead". That's clear. But putting the subject after the description just sorry of jackknifes the temporal understanding. Mayor shot dead. "Oh they were killed" Vs shot dead mayor "why are they shooting a corpse".

    I mean, I guess dead is an adjective. Which is often used before a subject to describe it. So grammatically it's "correct". If obtuse. But then I'm sure there are phrasings Americans use like that.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    "Dead" is an adjective yes but that rule only applies if the adjective is describing that noun, but in this case it is being used as an adverb, which are usually placed after the verb unless the verb takes a noun, which in this sentence it does, making it grammatically incorrect.

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