Incorrect: The players were moving easy around the field. Correct: The players were moving easily around the field. Incorrect: It felt well to score an A on the final.
Correct: It felt good to score an A on the final. Well, when used as an adjective, implies "in good health. Correct: My grandmother looks well even now in her eighties. Incorrect: My friend plays the piano good. Correct: My friend plays the piano well. Really is an adverb, and it modifies other adverbs, verbs, or adjectives. It has a meaning of "very.
Incorrect: Students did real well on the midterm. Correct: Students did really well on the midterm. Real is an adjective, and can be used to modify nouns or noun phrases.
It has a meaning of "true or genuine. Incorrect: Students took a really midterm last week. Correct: Students took a real midterm last week. Slow can be used as an adjective and as an adverb. In the first example, slow is an adverb and in the second one, it is an adjective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Hopper, Paul J. A short course in grammar. New York: W. Huddleston, Rodney. Introduction to the grammar of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Heather is a writer, librarian, linguist, wife, and mother who loves her husband, children, dogs, and cat.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words.
And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
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