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Yohooo8 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
"ly" questions
Here i got the example questions and answers. Can someone explain why "ly" is being used on questions 3, 5 and 8, while others don't.
1. Roses smell sweet/sweetly.
Sweet
2. The woman looked angry/angrily.
angry
3. The woman looked angry/angrily at the paint splotches.
Angrily
4.She feels bad/badly about the news.
5.She thinks slow/slowly.
slowly.
6. She is a slow/slowly thinker.
Slow
7. She thinks fast/fastly.
Fast
8. We performed bad/badly.
Badly
bad
1. Roses smell sweet/sweetly.
Sweet
2. The woman looked angry/angrily.
angry
3. The woman looked angry/angrily at the paint splotches.
Angrily
4.She feels bad/badly about the news.
5.She thinks slow/slowly.
slowly.
6. She is a slow/slowly thinker.
Slow
7. She thinks fast/fastly.
Fast
8. We performed bad/badly.
Badly
bad
Top answer
First, there is no such word as "fastly", so you definitely have to use "fast", even if "fastly" seems right in a given context. As for the rest of them, it all depends on whether you need an adjective (no -ly) to describe a noun or an adverb of manner (with -ly) to describe a verb. If you get the principle from just 2 and 3, you've got the idea for the whole set.
- First, there is no such word as "fastly", so you definitely have to use "fast", even if "fastly" seems right in a given context.
- As for the rest of them, it all depends on whether you need an adjective (no -ly) to describe a noun or an adverb of manner (with -ly) to describe a verb.
- If you get the principle from just 2 and 3, you've got the idea for the whole set.
- The woman looked angry.
- "angry" describes how the woman ("woman" is a noun) looked (to the speaker), that is, how she seemed to be.
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First, there is no such word as "fastly", so you definitely have to use "fast", even if "fastly" seems right in a given context.
As for the rest of them, it all depends on whether you need an adjective (no -ly) to describe a noun or an adverb of manner (with -ly) to describe a verb. If you get the principle from just 2 and 3, you've got the idea for the whole set.
The wo
As for the rest of them, it all depends on whether you need an adjective (no -ly) to describe a noun or an adverb of manner (with -ly) to describe a verb. If you get the principle from just 2 and 3, you've got the idea for the whole set.
The wo
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