✨Tricky adverbs✨
Bad or badly? Sweet or sweetly?🤔
If the verb being modified refers to using the eyes, nose, mouth, or hands (see/smell/taste/feel), use the –ly word.
🔹Roses smell sweet/sweetly.🤔
➡️The roses aren’t smelling with their noses, so sweet is correct.✅
🔹The woman looked angry/angrily.🤔
➡️We aren’t talking about how she used her eyes, so angry is correct.✅
🔹The woman looked angry/angrily at the spot on the carpet.🤔
➡️The woman is using her eyes, so angrily is correct.✅
🔹She feels bad/badly about the news.🤔
➡️She is expressing emotion, not feeling with her hand, so bad is correct.✅
🔺But: We performed badly. Describes how we performed.
🔹The fish tastes different/differently today.🤔
➡️Different because the fish is not tasting anything.✅
🔹Don’t take it personal/personally.🤔
➡️Personally because we are modifying take, not it!✅
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Bad or badly? Sweet or sweetly?🤔
If the verb being modified refers to using the eyes, nose, mouth, or hands (see/smell/taste/feel), use the –ly word.
🔹Roses smell sweet/sweetly.🤔
➡️The roses aren’t smelling with their noses, so sweet is correct.✅
🔹The woman looked angry/angrily.🤔
➡️We aren’t talking about how she used her eyes, so angry is correct.✅
🔹The woman looked angry/angrily at the spot on the carpet.🤔
➡️The woman is using her eyes, so angrily is correct.✅
🔹She feels bad/badly about the news.🤔
➡️She is expressing emotion, not feeling with her hand, so bad is correct.✅
🔺But: We performed badly. Describes how we performed.
🔹The fish tastes different/differently today.🤔
➡️Different because the fish is not tasting anything.✅
🔹Don’t take it personal/personally.🤔
➡️Personally because we are modifying take, not it!✅
#Grammar_Tips
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❌After switching the light on, the computer stopped working.
☝️You can only use After...ing if the same subject does both actions in the sentence.
✅After switching the light on, I closed the curtains.
☝️You have to use both subjects if they are different, and past tenses as usual.
✅After I switched the light on, the computer stopped working.
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❌After switching the light on, the computer stopped working.
☝️You can only use After...ing if the same subject does both actions in the sentence.
✅After switching the light on, I closed the curtains.
☝️You have to use both subjects if they are different, and past tenses as usual.
✅After I switched the light on, the computer stopped working.
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