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Originally Posted by GUEST2008  Hi
I asked this question because I wanted to compare:
1. She looks nice (not: nicely)
2. She sleeps calmly.
In the first example adjective is the correct option, and in the second example the adverb is the correct option, despite the fact that both "looks" and "sleeps" are verbs. |
Evidently, you have to draw an attention to the significances of both sentences you wrote! If we want to speak about these types of sentences with an adj or adv then that will need a long time just to write all one by one and then elaborating any of them!
As adverb
nicely is Standard, meaning “well, satisfactorily, acceptably, appropriately”:
She was nicely dressed. He thanked his grandmother nicely. As adjective in predicate adjective position,
nicely is at best dialectal:
She looks nicely. Use
nice instead. But compare
If "nicely" was used instead of nice in the first sentence, it means She is a good-looking girl! But when "nice" replaces with nicely, it will be giving a completely different meaning from the former one so that She is supposed to be a nice guy whether it'd be true or not!