Hopefully You Will Get Smarter
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 10:31
in Psychology & Sociology
Hopefully You Will Get SmarterDespite the wide use of sentences beginning with a word ending in -ly and despite the acceptance of such usage by people who know how language is used in the real world: despite these facts there are still some people who throw up their hands in horror at such "abuse" of language. Having been taught no doubt by repeaters of that Latin-based snobbery which was once peddled as English grammar, such people insist that -ly words are adverbs and as such they must, must, must - on pain of death - modify a verb. "Where is the verb?", they cry. That is woo of the first water. read more