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In the sentence

'I am sorry'

Is 'sorry' an adjective, noun or verb? My friend and I cannot agree on the answer

>> No.1096687

Adjective

>> No.1096691

To apologise is the verb, I suppose.

Being sorry is a state one can be in, so it's an adjective of some kind, right?

>> No.1096693

>>1096687

See that's what I thought as in 'I am terribly sorry' the adverb is terribly and an adverb modifies the adjective but my friend argues adverbs only modify verbs which is true in most but not all cases.

>> No.1096695

>>1096691

But surely a state can be a noun albeit not a concrete one? It doesn't describe the state as an adjective would but expresses the state and so would be a noun.

I am sorry (I being the subject and sorry being the object)

>> No.1096696

Man, that picture cannot be unseen.

>> No.1096697

He appeared to be sorry - adjective
He sorries to and fro - Verb (wut?)
I'll be out in a moment, I'm just refurnishing my sorry - Noun (huh?)

>> No.1096699

>>1096693

Ask him to conjugate it.

>> No.1096703

Sorrow is the noun. Sorry is the adjective that comes from it.

>> No.1096708

>>1096693

>adverb

...you've lost me

>> No.1096710

>>1096703

>He was in a state of sorry sorrow

That makes no sense

>> No.1096714

>>1096710

He was in a state of sorry cantaloupe.

Sorrow is a noun you bitch.

>> No.1096720

>>1096710
Of course - if 'sorry' comes from 'sorrow' you're not going to describe sorrow as sorry. That would be like saying "a horse-like horse". But you could say "he was in a sorry state of sorrow".

>> No.1096721

>>1096710
That's because despite their aesthetic similarity, the two words are not in the same vein.

>> No.1096723

>>1096721

They aren't?

>> No.1096726

>>1096720

Fair enough that makes sense

So it would be noun - There was a manin a state of sorrow
adjective - There was a sorry man or there was a man who was sorry
verb - There was a man who apologised

>> No.1096727

http://www.wordreference.com/definition/sorry
idklol

>> No.1096737

You guys are absolutely fucking retarded.

Sorry works as a PREDICATE FUCKING ADJECTIVE in that sentence. The verb "to be", conjugated to "am" functions as a linking verb, and thus I = sorry, and sorry is a predicate adjective.

>> No.1096742

>>1096723
To feel sorry is to feel regret.

To feel sorrow, is to feel sorrow.

They're different.

>> No.1096746

>>1096737

he's right phaggots

>> No.1096750

>>1096737
>>1096737
>>1096737
>>1096737
>>1096737

correct anon is correct.

In grammar, a subject complement is a phrase or clause that follows a linking verb (copula) and complements, or completes, the subject of the sentence by either (1) renaming it or (2) describing it. The former, a renaming noun (or sometimes a pronoun), is technically called a predicate noun or predicate nominative (or in some cases, a predicate pronoun). The latter, a describing adjective, is called a predicate adjective. In other words the predicate nominative is in a way mirroring the subject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject_complement