adjective or adverb (comparison)

Adjectives are frequently used where an adverb should be used. Using Google to determine usage is a truly thoughtless thing to do. You don't know how many of your search results are from non-native speakers. You don't know how many of your results are iterations, which is to say, someone repeating what someone else has written, which may well be a poor usage. You don't know the level of education of the people who are writing the usages you see in such a search. My advice is this: as you clearly know the distinction in usage between adjectives and adverbs, stick to that. If you know an adverb is required, use one. Many, many people make poor usage choices, but it behooves the non-native speaker to be as careful as possible, because you will be judged on the quality of your usage, whether or not someone thinks it is fair to judge you that way.

Setanta's "advice" is completely useless. All of it. He should never be listened to because he is so spectacularly wrong so often.

The following describes how English works with respect to adverbs, Linlin.

Drive Safe: In Praise of Flat Adverbs - Merriam-Webster Ask the Editor
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7epnfcHy5SA

Setanta : Adjectives are frequently used where an adverb should be used.

That would be because it is perfectly natural for native speakers to do so.

Setanta: Using Google to determine usage is a truly thoughtless thing to do.

Confusing second language learners with your ignorance on how language works is what is truly thoughtless. What Linlin discovered in Google is backed up by corpus studies in the LGSWE.

Setanta: You don't know how many of your search results are from non-native speakers.

That's easy to fix - "English only pages".

Setanta: You don't know the level of education of the people who are writing the usages you see in such a search.

You didn't know Setanta's level of education but regardless, you now know that he is woefully ignorant on how English really works.


Setanta: My advice is this:

Forget Setanta's advice. It's all too often completely worthless.

Thank you, JTT!

You're welcome, Linlin.