[Grammar] Over/overly recovered

[patran]

Dear Teachers

I am always confused the usage of "recover" and "over". In the sentence below, should I use "am" recovered, a participle, or "have recovered", a verb? And, it seems that "over recovered" sounds more natural, but overly is an adverb, which should be ahead of the adjective "recovered".

I had speech impediment when I was a kid, but now, I am/have recovered, overly/over recovered.

Please help.

Regards

Anthony the learner

 

[Rover_KE]

You don't recover from a speech impediment - You overcome it.

'It took me ages to recover from a serious bout of shingles.'

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Over/overly are different. They mean excessive/excessively.

'My wife is over-generous/overly-generous with her money; she gives too much away.'

So you can see it doesn't make sense to say 'over-recover from an illness'. It would mean 'I am excessively healthy.'

Rover

 

[CarloSsS]

You can also use the word "over", not overly, in the phrase "get over sth" to say that you recovered from an illness. For example, "I had lung cancer but I got over it quite fast".