weaker VS more weakly

bm

Mick, 2) is definitely not collo

….."more weakly" usu modifyibng a verb as in

"..reflects more weakly the demand usually expected"

As far ai I (we?) know Con, "bm" means bowel movement. Have I somehow been passed here

Forgive pun

I saw another person use it; when I asked them what it meant they said it stands for 'bookmark'. I placed that very short post there so that this thread would appear in my "My Posts" list. This was because I saw the question while I was browsing the web on my phone, and I did not fancy doing much typing, especially as the bus ride was rather bumpy. I can forgive many things, especially puns, especially when (refreshingly) the perpetrator is also demonstrating that he knows the difference between "passed" and "past". (Many younger folks don't, I have found).

Now to the question:



The first sentence is natural and grammatical.



The second sentence "sounds unnatural", and this is because it contains a serious and glaring grammatical error. The word "weakly" is an adverb, and cannot be used as an adjective as it is in that sentence. You could use "more weak", but that uses one extra word for no good reason.

Yea, Con, adverb. That's the term I couldn't wreckemember

Weak is an adjective, weakly is an adverb. Sentence number two is wrong, wrong, wrong.

"Weakly" can be ad adj

http://onelook.com/?w=weakly&ls=a

Though in this instance definitely not collo

So, the reason 'more weakly' isn't good enough is that it's an adverb, not an adjective. I see.

My guess that the term 'weakly' is used when describing people's health is not correct then.

Thanks a lot, Mr.. Miss?
Thanks a million, Dalehileman.

BM? What did you mean by that?

contrex is right. In the context of online discussion groups, "bm" is almost invariably an abbreviation for "bookmark", unless the discussion group is discussing intestinal processes.

I'm not sure "more weaklier" could ever be correct, in any circumstances. I'd drop the people who recommended that from your circle of advisers.

Go with 1.

Thanks. I think I need to tell off those who recommended 'weaklier'.

Sorry Mick if I wasn't clear; it's a matter of old age and incipient Alz's. "More weakly" technically is okay where it's adj, but it's just not collo

To the contrary it's quite applicable: "A more weakly condition taking hold" is quite correct tho as I said, not collo

The former, I'm a grandpa

Not at all, for what it's worth, not much hereaboout

You peddle such gross horseshit, you really have no business answering questions like this. To claim that "A more weakly condition taking hold" is correct is utter horseshit. In that phrase, weakly is in the position of an adjective, and it simply is not acceptable as a adjective in that construction. You just make **** up to make it appear what you know what you're talking about, and you don't.

But Set it says here I can do that

http://onelook.com/?w=weakly&ls=a

Pray where have I gone wrong

By the way, "collo" is a combining form meaning gelatinous, or glue-like. I don't know what the hell you think you're saying, but as usual, you're not saying anything in English.

It might be a regional dialect thing where DH lives; many Brits say "he is very poorly" (unwell) and I know Yorkshire folk sometimes say "He is badly" to mean the same thing, maybe where DH lives they say "he is weakly, sho' nuff" or something like that? These things are not standard English.

You posted that **** before, you're crazy as hell if you think you can send me off on some fool's errand to make your case for you. If you're too stupid to see that both in sentence number two and in that horseshit you just posted what is called for is an adjective, and "weakly" doesn't fit, it's not my mission to enlighten you.

The only regional dialect that he speaks is moron.

Alas Set my most abject apologies once more

Just how does one abbreviate "colloquial"