Sara is:
a baby boomer who was taught English with sentence diagramming and I find myself yelling “-ly” and “well” — “This is applied real quick” (ly!) or “Mix this real good” (really well!) — at YouTube and pre-taped courses.
Is this a normal language shift rather than something aggravating? Did you do something on where “-ly” came from?
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