A sentence in my previous post is bothering me.
I wrote: He was wading in quite deeply ...
Should that be deep or deeply? Does it describe the way he was wading? No, not really. So it should be deep. Should it?
Postscript
Why has Blogger stopped spell-checking? Is it me? Or Blogger?
Too many dilemmas for a Friday evening.
xx
4 comments:
He waded in quite deep.
He waded in swimmingly.
Deep. When in doubt change it, he waded into quite deep water, well for George whom you are no doubt talking about.
Deeply...it's an adverb describing how far down he was wading. Deep is a noun or an adjective, I believe, depending on how it's used. In jmb's example, I believe 'deep' is referring to the water's depth, not how far he was wading in. Does this make sense? I'm having a bad menopausal fart day, but I dug deeply into my old English-saturated brain...I used to get A's a million years ago...and this is what I came up with. My apologies to jmb if I offend. This, I think, holds true for American grammar...it DOES vary from country to country, depending on where jmb is from. Just like the meanings of words as well...such as bl**dy, which I know in your part of the world is a very profane word, whereas here in America it's just describing something blood-saturated! ;-P
I've waded in shallowly :) to say that Blogger isn't spell checking for me either.
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