Real soon vs really soon ?

Arctic Wolf schrieb:
[nq:1]Which is correct? I hope to see you real soon. or I hope to see you really soon. ?[/nq]
"real" is an adjective.
It can only modify nouns (or words that act as nouns).

"really" ia an adverb.
It can modify verbs and other adjectives and adverbs.

"soon" is an adverb.
"really" modifies "soon".
"I hope to see you really soon" is gramm

[nq:1]Which is correct? I hope to see you real soon. or I hope to see you really soon. ?[/nq]
The one that follows traditional English grammar is the second one. "Real" is an adjective, "really" an adverb. In colloquial English "real" is often used in such sentences. But if you used it in an ESL test, you'd be marked wrong.
There are those who would say that, as a matter of usage, neither

Depends on what you want to say.
[nq:1]I hope to see you real soon.[/nq]
This is saying, "I hope that soon I will see that you have manifested as other-than-imaginary." I suppose it could come up in a conversation.
[nq:1]I hope to see you really soon.[/nq]
This says, "I hope that, within a short period of time, I will see you". This is probably the one you want. I hop

[nq:1]Arctic Wolf schrieb:[/nq]
[nq:2]Which is correct? I hope to see you real soon. or I hope to see you really soon. ?[/nq]
[nq:1]"real" is an adjective. It can only modify nouns (or words that act as nouns). "really" ia an adverb. It ... hope to see you really soon" is grammatical English. "I hope to see you real soon" is widely-used AE slang.[/nq]
"Real soon" isn't native in even t

Michael DeBusk schrieb:
[nq:2]I hope to see you real soon.[/nq]
[nq:1]This is saying, "I hope that soon I will see that you have manifested as other-than-imaginary." I suppose it could come up in a conversation.[/nq]
Keep it real, dude.
Did you know that i am always imaginary?
Michael

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles o

I suppose the "soon" in the header makes this tenuously not-intolerably-off-topic, but Michael's sig-quote, "It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. Ronald Reagan, October 10, 1965"
prompts the slightly surrealist thought "Could it actually have bee

[nq:1]Did you know that i am always imaginary?[/nq]
According to Hinduism, we are all thoughts in the mind of ***.

Mic