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Image of text reading: "Some words end in 'ly' but they are not adverbs. **Friendly** is an example. Friendly is an adjective. We can say 'She is friendly' but not 'She talks friendly'. There is no adverb for friendly, but we can say 'She talks in a friendly way'. **Elderly** and **lonely** are also adjectives, not adverbs. **Kindly** and **early** are adjectives and adverbs.



but I still don't understand that why does the sentence "I lonely walked around the park" does not make any sense










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    What you quoted makes it clear. Lonely is an adjective, not an adverb. An adjective can modify a noun but it can't modify a verb.
    – Jason Bassford
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    What exactly do you not understand? Would you say “I happy walked around the park” or “I young walked around the park”, substituting different adjectives for lonely?
    – Janus Bahs Jacquet
    2 days ago










  • That helped me actually. Well then "I walked around the park alone" should be right? I was just thinking why does that not make no sense but I think I get it now It's fine.
    – Olgierd
    2 days ago










  • @Olgierd: As a footnote, lonely and alone aren't synonyms. You can be alone, yet not lonely.
    – Wordster
    2 days ago










  • "I walked lonely around the park" is acceptable though it would raise the question in what context so if you said "We went for a stroll and had a lovers tiff. She ran away, so I walked lonely around the park" makes perfect sense even if its not perfect grammar. Also if your dog was named Lonely it would also make perfect sense to say "I walked Lonely around the park" :-)
    – KJO
    2 days ago

















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And how do I say it right?



This should be an explanation:



Image of text reading: "Some words end in 'ly' but they are not adverbs. **Friendly** is an example. Friendly is an adjective. We can say 'She is friendly' but not 'She talks friendly'. There is no adverb for friendly, but we can say 'She talks in a friendly way'. **Elderly** and **lonely** are also adjectives, not adverbs. **Kindly** and **early** are adjectives and adverbs.



but I still don't understand that why does the sentence "I lonely walked around the park" does not make any sense










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    What you quoted makes it clear. Lonely is an adjective, not an adverb. An adjective can modify a noun but it can't modify a verb.
    – Jason Bassford
    2 days ago






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    What exactly do you not understand? Would you say “I happy walked around the park” or “I young walked around the park”, substituting different adjectives for lonely?
    – Janus Bahs Jacquet
    2 days ago










  • That helped me actually. Well then "I walked around the park alone" should be right? I was just thinking why does that not make no sense but I think I get it now It's fine.
    – Olgierd
    2 days ago










  • @Olgierd: As a footnote, lonely and alone aren't synonyms. You can be alone, yet not lonely.
    – Wordster
    2 days ago










  • "I walked lonely around the park" is acceptable though it would raise the question in what context so if you said "We went for a stroll and had a lovers tiff. She ran away, so I walked lonely around the park" makes perfect sense even if its not perfect grammar. Also if your dog was named Lonely it would also make perfect sense to say "I walked Lonely around the park" :-)
    – KJO
    2 days ago













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And how do I say it right?



This should be an explanation:



Image of text reading: "Some words end in 'ly' but they are not adverbs. **Friendly** is an example. Friendly is an adjective. We can say 'She is friendly' but not 'She talks friendly'. There is no adverb for friendly, but we can say 'She talks in a friendly way'. **Elderly** and **lonely** are also adjectives, not adverbs. **Kindly** and **early** are adjectives and adverbs.



but I still don't understand that why does the sentence "I lonely walked around the park" does not make any sense










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And how do I say it right?



This should be an explanation:



Image of text reading: "Some words end in 'ly' but they are not adverbs. **Friendly** is an example. Friendly is an adjective. We can say 'She is friendly' but not 'She talks friendly'. There is no adverb for friendly, but we can say 'She talks in a friendly way'. **Elderly** and **lonely** are also adjectives, not adverbs. **Kindly** and **early** are adjectives and adverbs.



but I still don't understand that why does the sentence "I lonely walked around the park" does not make any sense







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    What you quoted makes it clear. Lonely is an adjective, not an adverb. An adjective can modify a noun but it can't modify a verb.
    – Jason Bassford
    2 days ago






  • 2




    What exactly do you not understand? Would you say “I happy walked around the park” or “I young walked around the park”, substituting different adjectives for lonely?
    – Janus Bahs Jacquet
    2 days ago










  • That helped me actually. Well then "I walked around the park alone" should be right? I was just thinking why does that not make no sense but I think I get it now It's fine.
    – Olgierd
    2 days ago










  • @Olgierd: As a footnote, lonely and alone aren't synonyms. You can be alone, yet not lonely.
    – Wordster
    2 days ago










  • "I walked lonely around the park" is acceptable though it would raise the question in what context so if you said "We went for a stroll and had a lovers tiff. She ran away, so I walked lonely around the park" makes perfect sense even if its not perfect grammar. Also if your dog was named Lonely it would also make perfect sense to say "I walked Lonely around the park" :-)
    – KJO
    2 days ago














  • 1




    What you quoted makes it clear. Lonely is an adjective, not an adverb. An adjective can modify a noun but it can't modify a verb.
    – Jason Bassford
    2 days ago






  • 2




    What exactly do you not understand? Would you say “I happy walked around the park” or “I young walked around the park”, substituting different adjectives for lonely?
    – Janus Bahs Jacquet
    2 days ago










  • That helped me actually. Well then "I walked around the park alone" should be right? I was just thinking why does that not make no sense but I think I get it now It's fine.
    – Olgierd
    2 days ago










  • @Olgierd: As a footnote, lonely and alone aren't synonyms. You can be alone, yet not lonely.
    – Wordster
    2 days ago










  • "I walked lonely around the park" is acceptable though it would raise the question in what context so if you said "We went for a stroll and had a lovers tiff. She ran away, so I walked lonely around the park" makes perfect sense even if its not perfect grammar. Also if your dog was named Lonely it would also make perfect sense to say "I walked Lonely around the park" :-)
    – KJO
    2 days ago








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What you quoted makes it clear. Lonely is an adjective, not an adverb. An adjective can modify a noun but it can't modify a verb.
– Jason Bassford
2 days ago




What you quoted makes it clear. Lonely is an adjective, not an adverb. An adjective can modify a noun but it can't modify a verb.
– Jason Bassford
2 days ago




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What exactly do you not understand? Would you say “I happy walked around the park” or “I young walked around the park”, substituting different adjectives for lonely?
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 days ago




What exactly do you not understand? Would you say “I happy walked around the park” or “I young walked around the park”, substituting different adjectives for lonely?
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 days ago












That helped me actually. Well then "I walked around the park alone" should be right? I was just thinking why does that not make no sense but I think I get it now It's fine.
– Olgierd
2 days ago




That helped me actually. Well then "I walked around the park alone" should be right? I was just thinking why does that not make no sense but I think I get it now It's fine.
– Olgierd
2 days ago












@Olgierd: As a footnote, lonely and alone aren't synonyms. You can be alone, yet not lonely.
– Wordster
2 days ago




@Olgierd: As a footnote, lonely and alone aren't synonyms. You can be alone, yet not lonely.
– Wordster
2 days ago












"I walked lonely around the park" is acceptable though it would raise the question in what context so if you said "We went for a stroll and had a lovers tiff. She ran away, so I walked lonely around the park" makes perfect sense even if its not perfect grammar. Also if your dog was named Lonely it would also make perfect sense to say "I walked Lonely around the park" :-)
– KJO
2 days ago




"I walked lonely around the park" is acceptable though it would raise the question in what context so if you said "We went for a stroll and had a lovers tiff. She ran away, so I walked lonely around the park" makes perfect sense even if its not perfect grammar. Also if your dog was named Lonely it would also make perfect sense to say "I walked Lonely around the park" :-)
– KJO
2 days ago










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You actually can say that, but it sounds very poetic/old fashioned rather than like natural, everyday speech and you probably need some extra punctuation to clarify for modern speakers.



As the passage that you quoted explains, lonely is an adjective, not an adverb, so it can only describe a noun, not a verb (that is, it can describe a person, place, or thing, but can't describe an action). This means lonely cannot describe the way the person in your sentence is walking, but it could describe the person.



The problem with the sentence as-written is the placement of the word lonely. English usually puts adjectives in front of the noun they modify (red rose, beautiful dreamer, happy children, etc.), so without any other clues we are going to want to connect lonely with the word the word that follows it. In this case, that word is walked, but this doesn't work because it's not a noun.



We can "fix" this by interpreting lonely as an attributive clause. Attributive clauses modify the noun that immediately precedes them. Usually they're more than one word, but they don't have to be.



As I mentioned, this will sound poetical, and actually parallels some existing poetry:




When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,

I all alone beweep my outcast state

—William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29



Soon as the portals ope; I lonely tread

The sacred paths conductive thro' the choir

—Rev. Alsop, A Description of the Choir at St. Peter's Church, 1738



Thus wrapped in gloom I lonely walk

Life's dark and dreary way

—Joshua Ross, "My Ruling Star", 1855




As you can tell from the dates, it's also a very old-fashioned construction (there are other examples, but all that I've found are at least a hundred years old), so this won't be the first interpretation that most modern speakers will guess. We can make it a bit clearer by enclosing lonely in commas:




I, lonely, walked around the park.




However, if you want to have a more straightforward sentence that everyone will understand, you probably need to reword to something like




[Feeling] Lonely, I walked around the park.




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I walked around the park, all alone.







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    You actually can say that, but it sounds very poetic/old fashioned rather than like natural, everyday speech and you probably need some extra punctuation to clarify for modern speakers.



    As the passage that you quoted explains, lonely is an adjective, not an adverb, so it can only describe a noun, not a verb (that is, it can describe a person, place, or thing, but can't describe an action). This means lonely cannot describe the way the person in your sentence is walking, but it could describe the person.



    The problem with the sentence as-written is the placement of the word lonely. English usually puts adjectives in front of the noun they modify (red rose, beautiful dreamer, happy children, etc.), so without any other clues we are going to want to connect lonely with the word the word that follows it. In this case, that word is walked, but this doesn't work because it's not a noun.



    We can "fix" this by interpreting lonely as an attributive clause. Attributive clauses modify the noun that immediately precedes them. Usually they're more than one word, but they don't have to be.



    As I mentioned, this will sound poetical, and actually parallels some existing poetry:




    When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,

    I all alone beweep my outcast state

    —William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29



    Soon as the portals ope; I lonely tread

    The sacred paths conductive thro' the choir

    —Rev. Alsop, A Description of the Choir at St. Peter's Church, 1738



    Thus wrapped in gloom I lonely walk

    Life's dark and dreary way

    —Joshua Ross, "My Ruling Star", 1855




    As you can tell from the dates, it's also a very old-fashioned construction (there are other examples, but all that I've found are at least a hundred years old), so this won't be the first interpretation that most modern speakers will guess. We can make it a bit clearer by enclosing lonely in commas:




    I, lonely, walked around the park.




    However, if you want to have a more straightforward sentence that everyone will understand, you probably need to reword to something like




    [Feeling] Lonely, I walked around the park.




    or




    I walked around the park, all alone.







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      You actually can say that, but it sounds very poetic/old fashioned rather than like natural, everyday speech and you probably need some extra punctuation to clarify for modern speakers.



      As the passage that you quoted explains, lonely is an adjective, not an adverb, so it can only describe a noun, not a verb (that is, it can describe a person, place, or thing, but can't describe an action). This means lonely cannot describe the way the person in your sentence is walking, but it could describe the person.



      The problem with the sentence as-written is the placement of the word lonely. English usually puts adjectives in front of the noun they modify (red rose, beautiful dreamer, happy children, etc.), so without any other clues we are going to want to connect lonely with the word the word that follows it. In this case, that word is walked, but this doesn't work because it's not a noun.



      We can "fix" this by interpreting lonely as an attributive clause. Attributive clauses modify the noun that immediately precedes them. Usually they're more than one word, but they don't have to be.



      As I mentioned, this will sound poetical, and actually parallels some existing poetry:




      When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,

      I all alone beweep my outcast state

      —William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29



      Soon as the portals ope; I lonely tread

      The sacred paths conductive thro' the choir

      —Rev. Alsop, A Description of the Choir at St. Peter's Church, 1738



      Thus wrapped in gloom I lonely walk

      Life's dark and dreary way

      —Joshua Ross, "My Ruling Star", 1855




      As you can tell from the dates, it's also a very old-fashioned construction (there are other examples, but all that I've found are at least a hundred years old), so this won't be the first interpretation that most modern speakers will guess. We can make it a bit clearer by enclosing lonely in commas:




      I, lonely, walked around the park.




      However, if you want to have a more straightforward sentence that everyone will understand, you probably need to reword to something like




      [Feeling] Lonely, I walked around the park.




      or




      I walked around the park, all alone.







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        You actually can say that, but it sounds very poetic/old fashioned rather than like natural, everyday speech and you probably need some extra punctuation to clarify for modern speakers.



        As the passage that you quoted explains, lonely is an adjective, not an adverb, so it can only describe a noun, not a verb (that is, it can describe a person, place, or thing, but can't describe an action). This means lonely cannot describe the way the person in your sentence is walking, but it could describe the person.



        The problem with the sentence as-written is the placement of the word lonely. English usually puts adjectives in front of the noun they modify (red rose, beautiful dreamer, happy children, etc.), so without any other clues we are going to want to connect lonely with the word the word that follows it. In this case, that word is walked, but this doesn't work because it's not a noun.



        We can "fix" this by interpreting lonely as an attributive clause. Attributive clauses modify the noun that immediately precedes them. Usually they're more than one word, but they don't have to be.



        As I mentioned, this will sound poetical, and actually parallels some existing poetry:




        When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,

        I all alone beweep my outcast state

        —William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29



        Soon as the portals ope; I lonely tread

        The sacred paths conductive thro' the choir

        —Rev. Alsop, A Description of the Choir at St. Peter's Church, 1738



        Thus wrapped in gloom I lonely walk

        Life's dark and dreary way

        —Joshua Ross, "My Ruling Star", 1855




        As you can tell from the dates, it's also a very old-fashioned construction (there are other examples, but all that I've found are at least a hundred years old), so this won't be the first interpretation that most modern speakers will guess. We can make it a bit clearer by enclosing lonely in commas:




        I, lonely, walked around the park.




        However, if you want to have a more straightforward sentence that everyone will understand, you probably need to reword to something like




        [Feeling] Lonely, I walked around the park.




        or




        I walked around the park, all alone.







        share|improve this answer












        You actually can say that, but it sounds very poetic/old fashioned rather than like natural, everyday speech and you probably need some extra punctuation to clarify for modern speakers.



        As the passage that you quoted explains, lonely is an adjective, not an adverb, so it can only describe a noun, not a verb (that is, it can describe a person, place, or thing, but can't describe an action). This means lonely cannot describe the way the person in your sentence is walking, but it could describe the person.



        The problem with the sentence as-written is the placement of the word lonely. English usually puts adjectives in front of the noun they modify (red rose, beautiful dreamer, happy children, etc.), so without any other clues we are going to want to connect lonely with the word the word that follows it. In this case, that word is walked, but this doesn't work because it's not a noun.



        We can "fix" this by interpreting lonely as an attributive clause. Attributive clauses modify the noun that immediately precedes them. Usually they're more than one word, but they don't have to be.



        As I mentioned, this will sound poetical, and actually parallels some existing poetry:




        When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,

        I all alone beweep my outcast state

        —William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29



        Soon as the portals ope; I lonely tread

        The sacred paths conductive thro' the choir

        —Rev. Alsop, A Description of the Choir at St. Peter's Church, 1738



        Thus wrapped in gloom I lonely walk

        Life's dark and dreary way

        —Joshua Ross, "My Ruling Star", 1855




        As you can tell from the dates, it's also a very old-fashioned construction (there are other examples, but all that I've found are at least a hundred years old), so this won't be the first interpretation that most modern speakers will guess. We can make it a bit clearer by enclosing lonely in commas:




        I, lonely, walked around the park.




        However, if you want to have a more straightforward sentence that everyone will understand, you probably need to reword to something like




        [Feeling] Lonely, I walked around the park.




        or




        I walked around the park, all alone.








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