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[dido4]

Here is a question of the word friendly:

The word friendly is an adjective.

Q1:The word friendly, is there a form of adverb?

Q2: Do all the adjectives have adverb forms?
For examples:
She is beautiful. ( beautiful modifies she)
She walks beautifully. (The word, adverb, beautifully modifies the verb walk)


Thank you

[Mister Micawber]

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1-- friendlily
2-- No
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[Lorikeet]

My goodness, Mr. Micawber, you learn something new every day! I never heard of an adverb "friendlily" and had to look it up in the dictionary. I've always used something like "in a friendly way" instead!

[Mister Micawber]

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Most people do, Lori-- and so do I-- with adjectives such as friendly, likely, grisly, which require that awkward -lily adverb suffix.
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"I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences." � Gertrude Stein
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Canadian-American who teaches English for a living at Mr Micawber's