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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Easy or easily

You can't see spiders easy or You can't see spiders easily and why the correct answer is easily ? Thank you in advance!
  

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Easily -- the adverb is required here. It describes the seeing (it modifies the verb), not the spider (the noun).

— Mister Micawber

  • Easily -- the adverb is required here.
  • It describes the seeing (it modifies the verb), not the spider (the noun).
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Easily-- the adverb is required here. It describes the seeing (it modifies the verb), not the spider (the noun).
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give me another example of this usage.You mean that after verb follows a n adverb ?
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Placement is not necessarily definitive (nor is word form). You must analyze the sense of the modification--

Adjectives modify nouns:

The lesson was easy. (easy lesson)
It seemed a hard lesson. (hard lesson)


Adverbs modify verbs or adjectives or other adverbs:

I easily finished the lesson. (finished easily)
I studi
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Thank you very much
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In some collocations, "easy" behaves like an adverb.

(EX) Quick march! Turn left! Stand easy! (Stand in an easy posture!)
(EX) Take it easy! (Make yourself easy!)
(EX) Go easy! (Proceed with caution!)
(EX) They let him off easy. (They let him with a light penalty.)

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