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whatdaheck
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 Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:15 am Post subject: Principle? |
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Hi!
He is a man of principles. What's the adverbial form of "principle"? How can I use it for example if I want to say, "principally" but this Principally doesn't mean what I'm trying to say...Principally has a different meaning. I hope I'm not ambiguous! 
Please, help me out!
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CP
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:08 am Post subject: |
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You may say:
He is a man of principles.
He is a principled man.
He is a man who is guided by his principles.
He refused to answer on principle.
His principles are most important to him.
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whatdaheck
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:46 am Post subject: |
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HI!
Is there not any word for it? If I'm talking about principles....what would be the synonym or appropriate word in adverbial form...like for "principle" it should be something like principally or stuff but it's not!!!
Could you help me out!?! I need it so bad!
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Lorikeet
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Can you write down the sentence you would like to use it in? I can't think of an adverb for principled, except to say, "in a principled way." If I saw the sentence, it might be easier to tell you. For example, "He always acts in a principled way." |
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whatdaheck
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:21 am Post subject: |
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Hi!
For example, principally, ("in the sense of principles"), she ought not to behave like this etc etc...
I hope you got my point!
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Lorikeet
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:46 am Post subject: |
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She ought not to behave like this, according to her principles.
She in not behaving in a principled manner.
She is not following her principles when she behaves like that. |
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CP
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| whatdaheck wrote: |
Hi!
For example, principally, ("in the sense of principles"), she ought not to behave like this etc etc...
I hope you got my point!
Maham |
No, that is not the adverb related to the word principle. It is the adverb made from the adjective principal, meaning main. Principally means mainly, not in a principled way.
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whatdaheck
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:17 am Post subject: |
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Hi CP!
I knew that it's not the adverb related to the word principle. It is the adverb made from the adjective principal. But I was just trying to make Lorikeet understand where I was confused and needed help... I hope you must've got my point I was trying to make...
Anyways, thanks.
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