Is it more correct to say 'The picture hung crooked on the wall' or 'The picture hung crookedly on the wall'? My instinct is that the first one sounds better to me as a native speaker, but someone else I was talking to was convinced that only the second is correct. What's better here?
Learn English – ‘The picture hung crooked on the wall’
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Best Answer
If you imagine a pair of commas added:
you can see that crooked is an adjective.
It's not too harmful perhaps to then take the commas away.
Crooked describes the picture; crookedly, how it hangs.