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Slide train 285 Posted 5 years ago
Grammar
Colorful flashing lights vs. colorfully flashing lights
Which version is grammatically correct and why?
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"Colorful flashing lights" are flashing lights that are colorful. This is the usual way of putting that. "Colorfully flashing lights" are "lights that are flashing in a colorful way", which does not really make sense and would sound like a mistake for the other one.
- "Colorful flashing lights" are flashing lights that are colorful.
- This is the usual way of putting that.
- "Colorfully flashing lights" are "lights that are flashing in a colorful way", which does not really make sense and would sound like a mistake for the other one.
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"Colorful flashing lights" are flashing lights that are colorful. This is the usual way of putting that. "Colorfully flashing lights" are "lights that are flashing in a colorful way", which does not really make sense and would sound like a mistake for the other one.
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