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L3arn3r Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Is "smooth going" the correct one?

I try to say: We will meet you soon if everything is smooth going. I think it 's right and way better than "if everything is smoothly going", am I right? How to parse xxx is smooth going? As an adj?

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l3arn3r We will meet you soon if everything is smooth going. No. We will meet you soon if everything goes smoothly .

— Mister Micawber

  • l3arn3r We will meet you soon if everything is smooth going.
  • No.
  • We will meet you soon if everything goes smoothly .
  • 'Smoothly'is an adverb.
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l3arn3rWe will meet you soon if everything is smooth going.
No.

We will meet you soon if everything goes smoothly.

'Smoothly'is an adverb.

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Thank you sir. I also get this sentence while I am consulting dictionary from Merriam Webster :

2.involving minimal difficulty or effort <it should be smoothgoing from this point on>
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l3arn3rit should be smoothgoing
In that case, 'going' is a noun. Using it in your sentence is awkward, since its positioning confuses it with the more common structure that I have given you. Compare with some other Webster's examples.

Debris in the street made the going difficult.
The going got better as we neared the town.
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