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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

safe or safely?

When someone says "Drive home safe.", should it really be "Drive home safely", or is it "drive home safe"?

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Drive home safely. CJ

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Drive home safely.

CJ
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Maybe the other one is the informal usage? Plz help!
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Yes. The other one is informal. And, technically, wrong.
CJ
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Well, my perception of "Drive home safe" is that it may be a changed (or shortened) form of "Drive home and be safe." Safe is used here to modify the person you are speaking to ,not the verb Drive. That is why adj is used here. Similar example is "He stood still and looked at Brad", wherein still as an adj is used to modify the person, not the verb befort it.
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