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*''He died a painful death.'' (i.e., He died painfully.)

*''He dreamed a strange dream.'' (i.e., He dreamed, and his dream was strange.)

** (Note: This seems to be the only example whichthat has a more natural-sounding sentence that would be used in everyday conversation., i.e., ''"He had a strange dream."'')

*''He walked their walk and talked their talk.'' (i.e., He walked and talked as they did.)

*''He smiled a charming smile.'' (i.e., He smiled, and his smile was charming.)

*''He danced a cheerful dance.'' (i.e., He danced, and his dance was cheerful.)

In some of these cases, the cognate object allows for a simpler construction;. inIn others, it may simply be chosen for [[idiom]]atic or [[rhetoric]]al reasons. In general, the cognate object's modifiers are in some sense modifying the verb: for example, ''He slept a troubled sleep'' tells how he slept. Semantically, many of these verbs denote modes of nonverbal expression (laugh, smile) and bodily actions or motions (dance, walk, sleep), specifically including what Levin calls "waltz verbs," those whichthat are [[Conversion %28linguistics%29#Verbification|zero-related]] (i.e., identical) to the names of dances. <ref>{{cite book

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| first = Beth