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Thread: Is lovely an adverb?
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04-23-2008, 10:00 PM #1
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04-23-2008, 10:03 PM #2
How is it used?
She looks lovely= adverb
Those flowers are lovely = adjective
Depends what its describing...I thinkDecisions Decisions
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04-23-2008, 10:07 PM #3
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04-23-2008, 10:07 PM #4Mackerel
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04-23-2008, 10:10 PM #5King of Scots
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04-24-2008, 10:33 AM #6Registered User
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My ghod, I can't believe how weak I am; I can't resist...
Brock was incorrect in saying that his two examples differed: In both
cases he showed lovely was being used as a predicate adjective (the
verbs in both sentences were intransitive).
I think that the reason that we're having a hard time with this word
as an adverb is testiment to its listing as nonstandard.
Where the hell are the grammar police when you really need them?
cheers,
john
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04-24-2008, 12:29 PM #7
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04-24-2008, 12:40 PM #8
I guess you could use it as an adverb ("She sucked me off lovely"), but you'd sound retarded, British, or both.
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04-24-2008, 12:46 PM #9King of Scots
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04-24-2008, 12:52 PM #10
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04-24-2008, 12:55 PM #11
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04-24-2008, 12:59 PM #12
Are you insinuating that Mary Poppins fellated Bert?
Innocence = shattered.
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04-24-2008, 01:08 PM #13
Yes, but I think he was saying..."Coo...you suck me most loverly." There's a difference, you know.
Living vicariously through myself.
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04-24-2008, 01:15 PM #14Registered User
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04-24-2008, 02:11 PM #15
love-ly, adjective
love·li·ly, adverb
love·li·ness, noun
Or, so says dictionary.combackcountry makes my wee wee tingle...
"What was once a mighty river. Now a ghost." Edward Abbey
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"Feeling good is good enough."
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04-24-2008, 02:21 PM #16
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04-24-2008, 02:29 PM #18Mackerel
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