Eventually, nearly everyone in the class gets the answer right, and the concepts stick with them because they had to find their own way to the answer.
"gets the answer right" what's the part of speech of 'right' here?
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Sign up to join this communityThat is an adjective. It is a complement in the clause, completing the clause headed by "gets" and describing the answers that they get.
It's not an adverb. It doesn't function to modify the verb or the clause.
Eventually, nearly everyone in the class gets the answer right, and the concepts stick with them because they had to find their own way to the answer.
In that sentence the word right is an adjective.
The following example is from Cambridge Dictionary 1:
You got three answers right and two wrong.
In that sentence the word right is an adjective.