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Real good or really good? Part-time or part-timely?
My English teacher told us that, verbs should be followed by adverbs.
By I keep hearing Americans say:
It's real good.
It's real cool.
and:
I work part-time.
I work full-time.
Shouldn't they be:
It's really good/cool
I work part-timely/full-timely.
I'm so confused. And I wonder do Britishers speak like that too?
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Re: Real good or really good? Part-time or part-timely?
Standard American English:
Ex: really good, really cool
Ex: part-time, full-time
The adverbial suffix -ly is often dropped in speech.
To my knowledge, there part-timely, full-timely are not English.
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