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Misko Pisko Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

You caused it, thoroughly.

"You caused it, thoroughly." Please, is this OK?
  

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" Please, is this OK? No, it's not OK. "cause" and "thoroughly" don't go together.

— CalifJim

  • " Please, is this OK?
  • No, it's not OK.
  • "cause" and "thoroughly" don't go together.
  • You may as well say that you died thoroughly or that you landed a plane thoroughly or that you won thoroughly.
  • Achievement verbs don't take the adverb 'thoroughly'.
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Misko Pisko"You caused it, thoroughly." Please, is this OK?
No, it's not OK. "cause" and "thoroughly" don't go together. You may as well say that you died thoroughly or that you landed a plane thoroughly or that you won thoroughly. Achievement verbs don't take the adverb 'thoroughly'.

Rinse and dry thoroughly.
The plane has been thoro
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It's not wrong.
It would be more common to say eg completely.
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You alone caused it. (You had sole responsibility.)
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From my experience, this is the kind of problem students encountered when they literally take the definition of a word out of the dictionary and use it in the wrong context.

Anon,
Thoroughly, completely, meticulously, entirely and etc are words with similar meanings, but each adjective can only be used with certain context. Adding to CJ's examples, you can say " you caused the adve
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Thank you everyone. I would need a word that rhymes with "completely", maybe "You caused it. Truly./Luckily."? It's meant in a good way.
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