Adjective complement with noun phrase

• prove: We proved the opinion polls wrong by a factor of 50 % .

• do: Hadrian didn't do anything wrong, David was just that one step ahead.

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Modifies a noun

• direction: Some stupid person changed them in the wrong direction!

• turning: I ventured down many blind alleys and took several wrong turnings.

• side: With both being the wrong side of sixty they must be the eldest rockers in the village!

• answer: They're just coming up with the wrong answer.

• impression: Cross breed 20 Oct 06 13:02 In what way have we got the wrong impression of Larks?

• conclusion: The aim of these notes is to save the user of MGP from jumping to too many wrong conclusions.

Modifying Another Word

• horribly: Wine all tastes like grape juice gone horribly wrong to me.

• morally: CNA is not, by itself, morally wrong.

Infinitive complement

• assume: In the above example, it might be wrong to assume that the potential users were unaware of what you had to offer.

• suggest: But Thompson said: " The article was wrong to suggest there has been any change.

• portray: Comrade Mc Shane said comrade Donovan was wrong to portray the result of the election as simply positive.

Used with adjective complement

• go: Indeed you rarely go wrong with a Lees house.

• prove: Not surprisingly, and in a terrifying manner, he is proved wrong.

• do: I don't know what they had done wrong.

• seem: Of course, Hopkins is there and has been influential on a range of poets; but this seems wrong to me.

Preposition: in

• principle: Second, he says that it is wrong in principle for the offer to be linked to contact.

Preposition: with

• ethnography: HAMMERSLEY, M. , 1992, What's Wrong with Ethnography?