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Dear Teacher

Please let me know which phrase is correct.

a. walking so close beside a person
or
b. walking so closely beside a person

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Both. These days adverbs ending in -ly are merging in form with their adjective counterparts; e.g., closely (adverb) => close (adverb).
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Dear Soup

Thank you very much for your reply. Now I know that there is somewhere I can turn to should I have a question.

Best regards,

Roly
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