Adjectives end in -ly?
Oct. 16th, 2011 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
When I was in school, I was told in class that adverbs generally end in -ly. "Really?" I asked.
"Are you sure? Ugly, lovely, friendly, silly, elderly, wily, curly?" Having anticipated this, I had
memorized this list, waiting for the right moment, to see if I could pull it off. Sure enough,
the teacher looked briefly confused, then said "Oh, right, it's adjectives that
tend to end in -ly." And the class dutifully wrote it down.