Poor Pinocchio huddled close to the doghouse more dead than alive from cold, hunger.
请问老师, more dead than alive在这做什么成份。我感觉是状语,但是dead 和 alive又是形容词,该如何理解?
形容词作状语 http://www.yygrammar.com/Article/201105/2245.html
more dead than alive与其说是活着,不如说是死了,即 very close to death快要死了,可以视作形容词词组。形容词或形容词词组都可以作状语。