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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Adjective vs adverb

How does the meaning vary according to the following usage? Btw, is speaker 1's sentence grammatical?

Speaker 1: Should I install the application everytime I want to use it
Speaker 2: Not necessary/ Not necessarily.

If there is not meaning difference, can you give me an illustration where meanings are interpreted in a completely different sense?

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Speaker 1: Should I install the application every time I want to use it? Speaker 2a: Not necessary-- This is grammatical enough as a spoken utterance. It is shortened from '[That's] not necessary.

— Mister Micawber

  • Speaker 1: Should I install the application every time I want to use it?
  • Speaker 2a: Not necessary-- This is grammatical enough as a spoken utterance.
  • It is shortened from '[That's] not necessary.
  • This means 'definitely not'.
  • - This means 'maybe not'.
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Speaker 1: Should I install the application every time I want to use it?
Speaker 2a: Not necessary-- This is grammatical enough as a spoken utterance. It is shortened from '[That's] not necessary. This means 'definitely not'.

Speaker 2b: Not necessarily.- This means 'maybe not'.

If there is not meaning difference, can you give me an illustratio
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