Hey,
A friend and I are discussing whether it is more correct to say "very slow" or "very slowly" as in "She drives very slow(ly)".
It's funny how i don't know this even though i'm a native speaker (and so is my friend). Anyway, does anyone know this for sure?
thx!
A friend and I are discussing whether it is more correct to say "very slow" or "very slowly" as in "She drives very slow(ly)".
It's funny how i don't know this even though i'm a native speaker (and so is my friend). Anyway, does anyone know this for sure?
thx!
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A friend and I are discussing whether it is more correct to say "very slow" or "very slowly" as in "She drives very slow(ly)".
It's funny how i don't know this even though i'm a native speaker (and so is my friend). Anyway, does anyone know this for sure?
'Slowly'. It's an adverb that modifies the verb 'drive'. It tells us how she drives.
Or you could say 'She is a very slow driver'. Here, 'slow' is an adjective that describes the noun 'driver'.
Best wishes, Clive
so, she drives very slowly is correct?
i get what you're sayin but what if you want to say: the traffic in front drives very slow(ly) ? Now refering to the traffic and nothing else. And if you want to say: the cars in front are driving very slow(ly) refering to cars in plural.
thx in advance
You can use the adjective slow like this, for example:
They are both slow drivers.
I have a slow car.
My car is slow.
Are you really a native speaker? The sentence "the traffic in front drives very slowly" does not really sound like a natural native-speaker sentence to me.
Very must be used with another adjective, adverb or noun. It makes the meaning of the word it modifies more intense.
Correct grammar would be "She drives very slowly" (slowly used as an adverb modifying the verb drives), or "She is a very slow driver" (slow used an adjective modifying the noun driver).