Good and Well
Time for a brief grammar lesson kids.
An adjective describes/modifies a noun. The pretty dress. An adverb modifies a verb. He runs quickly. Got it? Got it. Good.
Well is an adverb. Good is an adjective. Okay?
Good job. He is a good kid.
She swims well. How are you? I am doing well.
Please take note and please use good grammar. Thank you.
1 Comments:
That is a very, let us say, ^interesting^ point of view, I suppose. But let's think about this for just one moment. It seems to me that this "error" is rather common: in fact, who among us isn't guilty of saying they're* doing good at one point or another? Perhaps the fact that this mistake is so very frequent suggests some sort of disparity between the way we are told to speak and the way people actually do speak. Do you think perhaps this disparity may be a result of a little thingy called, "natural language change?" Now, I'm no linguist, but it seems to me that in our grammars, the arbitrary sign of "good" is actually functioning as an adverb! As to the fact that this post so strongly bemoans this egregious error, I should like to point out that it makes no lament as to demodalization, another rather recent occurrence. The loss of use of modal verbs in everyday speech surely represents a much greater change than does the use of the most common adverb in the English language for one of the most common adjectives. So why vituperate those for making an almost trivial adjectivization while ignoring what basically sums up to destruction of a major function of the subjunctive mood? Prescriptivism and shortsightedness is why. I would like to remind the author and all readers that almost all "grammatical errors" we make extend far beyond our current generation. Whining about one small aspect of language change without sufficient justification other than, "its not right" is simply myopic. Now of course, there are the need for standards, but this exists only in the world of print and formal discourse. Before we angrily scold others for making what are considered to be infractions of standards in informal speech, perhaps we should analyze our own parlance and realize we're not "gonna" be in the right by taking such a prescriptivistic stance.
*http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=they&defid=693647 (first definition)
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