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Do All Languages Have Nouns and Verbs?
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Do All Languages Have Nouns and Verbs?

Also, where did the suffix -ly come from?

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Jan 05, 2023
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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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