Usage of "wise"

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which is correct:choose more wiselyorchoose wiser

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Kitwyk:

(1) TOM: Everything I order at a restaurant makes me sick.

JOYCE: Well, you have to choose your food more wiseLY.

(wisely = adverb = tells HOW Tom should choose his food. Don't order just anything. Choose more wisely. = take your time and think before you order food.)

(2) PAMELA: My friends really do crazy things that are dangerous.

BILL: Well, you should choose wisER friends.

(wiser = adjective = describes the KIND OF friends that Pamela should choose. )

Thank you.

Kitwyk · Answer

thank you so much. you have confirmed what I thought was the correct usage.
I was surprised to see a website for an organization named "Choose Wiser."

regards,
Kitywk

Buddhaheart · Answer

kitwykthank you so much. you have confirmed what I thought was the correct usage.

I was surprised to see a website for an organization named "Choose Wiser."

regards,

Kitywk

The title "Choose Wiser" of the Organization you mentioned is not necessarily wrong grammatically. I believe that’s what you implied in your reply post to Anonymous.

Firstly it is not a complete sentence. It is just a title. It could be the 2 key words taken from “Women want to choose to be wiser (not *more wisely)." or “Women choose to be wiser." Compare: “I want to choose to be happier (not *more happily).” or “I choose to be happier (not *more happily).”

An adjective can be used with a verb correctively if the verb expresses some quality of the subject rather than the action of the verb. For example, in “She feels sad.” The predicative adjective “sad” describes the subject “she” and not the verb “feels” which is used as a connective. It would be wrong to say “She feels *sadly.”

Kitwyk · Answer

I'm not sure of their intent. Is it possible to choose to be wiser? Or to know how to choose the wiser option?

http://www.choosewiser.com/index.php

thanks again,
kitwyk

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