"plentifully sure"

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Can I use "plentifully" to emphasize how certain I am about a certain matter or fact? It may sound odd but please KEEP IT polite, I wouldn't be asking if I knew the answer to my own question!Thanks

Xerxes · Accepted Answer

Maelstrom,

To be honest, I have never come across such a construction in any written text, nor have I ever heard anyone say it. I cannot imagine any native English speaker saying something like that. I suppose you can say it - the English is considered by many to be more tolerant and permissive than some other languages - but just because you can does not mean you should. I certainly wouldn't.

Mister Micawber · Answer

maelstromIt may sound odd

Yes, it is odd. I am very sure that I have never heard a native use it thus.

Maelstrom · Answer

XerxesMaelstrom,To be honest, I have never come across such a construction in any written text, nor have I ever heard anyone say it. I cannot imagine any native English speaker saying something like that. I suppose you can say it - the English is considered by many to be more tolerant and permissive than some other languages - but just because you can does not mean you should. I certainly wouldn't.

Thank you Xerxes!
Then what adjectives is this adverb applied to the most?

Mister Micawber · Answer

maelstromThen what adjectives is this adverb applied to the most?

Few. COCA offers only 30 examples. Notice that all but one or two are modifying verbs:

...The failures of his anecdote- # heavy act have been documented plentifully. But there is a way to do these kinds of shows right. And
...liquors, by not only creating disorders among the Indians, (who had been plentifully supplied with it by the traders) but also destroying many of the English,
...drank rum publickly, I believe sic it may at Savannah have been drank plentifully by the great sickness and mortality seen there, " and he conjectured that "
...were positively associated with students' sitting and standing behaviors. Although RT-PE have accomplished plentifully, Silverman (1991) pointed out that the majority of studies in teaching physical
...had no grasp of Maysalean principles. Brother Candle reminded himself that all religions came plentifully stocked with people who paid no attention to what they were about. Some became
...One of Mackie's nicknames is the Raiah of Rhinestones: what sparkled so plentifully on the gown were no more diamonds than a stage set for Hamlet could be
...Rarely is sushi a bargain, but here two can eat plentifully for under $30. It's a tiny place that is always packed, so
...the bus window in China; yellow daisies and scarlet hibiscus, vantana(ph) growing as plentifully as weeds. Nothing had changed from one country to the next, or so
...how to make precious metals and pigments, and many other things better and more plentifully than they are made by nature. " It was the operative and practical
...others ruby colored, poke up everywhere. These and other carnivorous plants grow so plentifully that there's nary a mosquito to swat. Shading her eyes, Tracy gazes
...Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, recorded the natural wonders of a territory that had plentifully sustained its original inhabitants for thousands of years.
...the humblest garden. Bottom right:' Super Dome' broccoli grows great and plentifully. Cut the regrowth close to the main stem to encourage the continued production of
...rescuing not only flowers, but those vegetables we needs sic must grow so plentifully. If you have no garden of your own, perhaps your holiday time will
...was significantly higher at even earlier times. If stars formed so early and plentifully, notes Joseph I. Silk of the University of California, Berkeley, they would
...school classes. And that commercial publishers keep printing versions of the ark story, plentifully illustrated with cute pairs of animals, tended by a portly and kind Noah.
...world, but that they may be kept unspotted from the contaminations which abound so plentifully within it.... The church must press home upon its sons and
...the market. The museums do not own any complete sculptures, although these are plentifully available on the art market, but neither located nor identified. Demand from the
...much of it is shattered. The United States and other NATO states spent plentifully for this result.
...Vermont and everywhere else. We know it'll rain only as long and as plentifully as is absolutely necessary, and not a drop more, and we're happier
...wondered why he was spending so much money to achieve what was in any case plentifully available in late twentieth century New York City.
...rich soil; therefore let your land, if not naturally quite rich, be plentifully manured, " one garden manual instructed. Today as in Shaker times, the
...Missouri on a Saturday night at Fort Peck, Sheriff Kinnick was going to be plentifully surprised. The Ford ton-and-a-half twisted slowly in the air like cargo coming ashore.
..sweat shirts, boxer shorts, toilet tissue and bath robes seem to abound more plentifully than, say, books. This is supposed to be a year to remember
...of the University of Connecticut Human Performance Lab. Coyle suggests athletes drink plentifully with meals and snacks because food naturally contains many times more sodium than sports drinks
...my dogs. The voice of the sphere told other stories -- stories I lived plentifully, with great intensity. I didn't only see the events from outside.
..relevance " were not the object for Grotowski, for those qualities can be found plentifully enough elsewhere. Instead the doers, by reconstructing and reenacting these ancient rituals,
...Tavistock's expression froze and there was a long silence. " This home is plentifully supplied with reading matter, " she said. Clara, stung, was tempted
...notably The Joy Luck Club, in which background facts are laid out so plentifully and pedantically that you half expect the narrator to throw in a quick quiz.
...overwhelmed by an avalanche of data. That is why the writing of novels about plentifully documented figures-Lincoln, say, or John F. Kennedy-is a risky matter, constricting for
...yesterday perplex men with unrequested answers? We are distressed by all affections which plentifully doubt the geniture and scheme of exis tence since all matters descend from His hand
...She scouts the fields, estimating how many gleaners the crop will feed plentifully - " We don't want them to use their gas money and not have

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