Modifying Another Word

• hard: The trawler had been driven ashore in severe weather and was hard aground on the Orkneys, at Copinsay.

• firmly: Their lives were still firmly aground on the mud of the Greek culture in which they had been brought up.

Used with adjective complement

• run: The running aground off Spain was due to fog and unpredictable currents.

Preposition: in

• water: The captain's pleas to run her aground in shallower water were ignored.