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All the drawers were stuffed full of letters and papers

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Stenka25  +  536149 Thu, 03 Jul 08 06:58 AM
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I want to ask some tricky question.

In the below sentence, I am curious about what grammatical role the word 'full' has.

It seems like 'all the drawers were stuffed with letters and papers' + 'all the drawers were full of letters and papers.'

But I don't know how to explain this kind of sentence.

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• All the drawers were stuffed full of letters and papers.
Stenka25
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Mister Micawber  +  536154 Thu, 03 Jul 08 07:36 AM
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I'd call it an adverb.  Stuffed full of = stuffed fully with
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Thanks.
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