Poll: I was worried sick.

I was worried sick.
'Sick' is an adjective here.
'Sick' is an adverb here.

Votes: 267
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Added: March 2004

 

Comments:

HT - 29th July 2004 22:02
A resultative adjective
 
Vidableek - 6th March 2008 22:25
This one is hard. If the sentence was "I was sickly worried" then it would surely be an adverb. But in this case the person is saying "I was worried to the point where I felt sick." thus it is an adjective.
 
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