ESL General English Grammar Questions

ESL General English Grammar Questionshttp://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)Re: turn out right or turn out rightlyhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/TurnRightTurnRightly/gcmlh/post.htm#515114Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:06:56 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:515114Stenka250http://www.englishforums.com/English/TurnRightTurnRightly/gcmlh/post.htm#515114http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-515114.xmlStartFragment > Thanks, all of you, Marius Hancu, Avangi, MrPedantic.Re: turn out right or turn out rightlyhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/TurnRightTurnRightly/gcmlh/post.htm#514625Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:06:56 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:514625MrPedantic1http://www.englishforums.com/English/TurnRightTurnRightly/gcmlh/post.htm#514625http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-514625.xml1. Things turn out right. 2. ?Things turn out rightly. #2 would sound a little odd, in BrE; though it may well occur in other kinds of English. In #1, I would take "turn out" as a linking verb; "right" as a subject complement. MrPRe: turn out right or turn out rightlyhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/TurnRightTurnRightly/gcmlh/post.htm#514622Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:06:56 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:514622Marius Hancu2http://www.englishforums.com/English/TurnRightTurnRightly/gcmlh/post.htm#514622http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-514622.xmlAlso, for AmE, by searching the New York Times site with plain Google for: site:nytimes.com "turn out right" site:nytimes.com "turn out rightly" it's even more pronounced: 243 from nytimes.com for "turn out right" 0 from nytimes.com for "turn out rightly"Re: turn out right or turn out rightlyhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/TurnRightTurnRightly/gcmlh/post.htm#514619Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:06:56 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:514619Avangi3http://www.englishforums.com/English/TurnRightTurnRightly/gcmlh/post.htm#514619http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-514619.xmlI think because "rightly" is an adverb it describes the process of "turning out," while "right" as an adjective describes the product . I guess the same could be said of "correct" and "correctly." A thing turns out correct . (We need the "to be"???) "A thing turns out correctly," is more common. Anyway, I agree that both right and rightly are useful. - A.Re: turn out right or turn out rightlyhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/TurnRightTurnRightly/gcmlh/post.htm#514616Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:06:56 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:514616Marius Hancu4http://www.englishforums.com/English/TurnRightTurnRightly/gcmlh/post.htm#514616http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-514616.xmlUse Google Books, it's more educated than plain Google: http://books.google.com 10 of 64 on "turn out rightly" 794 on "turn out right" (much more frequent) Both correct, but look at the dates of books here: 10 of 64 on "turn out rightly" http://books.google.com/books?q=%22turn+out+rightly%22&lr=&sa=N&start=20 most of them are old, and you don't want to sound old-fashioned.turn out right or turn out rightlyhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/TurnRightTurnRightly/gcmlh/post.htmSun, 26 Apr 2009 07:06:56 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:514614Stenka255http://www.englishforums.com/English/TurnRightTurnRightly/gcmlh/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-514614.xmlStartFragment > Another grammar question. Recognize that only when you make the right changes to your thinking, other things begin to turn out in your life. They say the answer is ' right ,' not 'rightly.' What I want to ask is why 'rightly' can't be used. I did 'google' again. And I found out... ‣The Only Thing that Counts: The Ernest Hemingway/Maxwell Twenty-two years of correspondence between Ernest Hemingway and his editor, Maxwell Perkins, are covered in a volume... Aug. 5, 1937 "Dear Ernest; ...If he will only begin to dramatize himself as the man who came back now, everything may turn out rightly . I thinks 'right' and 'rightly'...