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JKBelieve Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Come quick? come quickly?

Come quick, she is bleeding profusely!

Shouldn't the 'quick' be 'quickly? Another example : 'He was breathing heavy'...shouldn't the 'heavy' be 'heavily'?
  

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Technically, yes, it should be "quickly". "Come quick" is (to me) idiomatic enough to pass in conversation without leaping out as a glaring error. "breathing heavy" isn't, and is wrong according to standard English.

— Mr Wordy

  • Technically, yes, it should be "quickly".
  • "Come quick" is (to me) idiomatic enough to pass in conversation without leaping out as a glaring error.
  • "breathing heavy" isn't, and is wrong according to standard English.
  • It should be "heavily", as you say.
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Technically, yes, it should be "quickly".

"Come quick" is (to me) idiomatic enough to pass in conversation without leaping out as a glaring error. "breathing heavy" isn't, and is wrong according to standard English. It should be "heavily", as you say.

(In the UK, the situation is complicated by the fact that, in informal conversation, speakers of some regional dialects routinely
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Take a look at this definition

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/quick

American corpus lists this sample with "real quick":

do you have a hankering to see Buffalo or make me very happy or accrue some serious money
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Come, quick! Adding a comma will make using the word 'quick' rather than 'quickly' grammatically correct.
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