To wonder why adverbs are disappearing?

[Sittingontopoftheworld]

‘He sings amazing.’
‘I eat healthy.’
‘He did really good in the challenge.’

Dear god, where have all the adverbs gone? Drives me nuts! If I pull my teen DC up on it, they roll their eyes and can’t accept they’re saying anything wrong. Surely they are not disappearing for good? I like adverbs!

Yes that is annoying, but not as bad as 'I was sat/stood...' which I even hear from BBC presenters, see in books, newspapers etc. Many don't even use it consistently. I think correct grammar is becoming a lost cause.

Literate adults still use adverbs so maybe you're spending too much time in the company of slack-jawed yokels and GCSE drop-outs

Language evolves. We no longer speak English as written by Shakespeare, Austen or Dickens.

My DH and I still use adverbs and my 6yo DS uses them too.

Well, I think we jolly well should. I don’t want adverbs thrown by the wayside! I may petition.

You can move away from Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens and still use adverbs properly.

"He did really good" makes me want to scream into a pillow.
Children are definitely taught adverbs at school. I'm not sure why their use is in decline, possibly a fashion thing.

DD says she hasn’t ‘done’ adverbs since year 4 and it has never been recapped. But I don’t think that’s anything to do with it - I think it’s a kind of fad (that I hope doesn’t stick!).

Shop local.

Aaaaargh!

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I have an English degree and have never heard of not using stood/sat until my friend kept correcting me.

I do use adverbs frequently though.

Drives me mad. As does the sudden influx of 'it was xx pound'. Its POUNDS.

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Words are often used in a incorrect way colloquially, with adjectives standing in for adverbs, verbs standing in for nouns and nouns becoming verbs.

I cringe inwardly at an ‘invite’ . But I don’t comment, except to my own children or those I teach. It’s not a battle to be won - but I hope there will always be a place for standard English In academia, business and government as a minimum.

Not an adverb, but

I weigh X Stone...

Say this myself I admit - but surely it's STONES!!!

Invite 😡

Language evolves.

Someone always trots this out on these threads. Language may well evolve but that’s no reason to talk like an ignoramus.

The slow death of adverbs has been going on for decades. I blame 1980’s football commentators:
“The boy done good”, etc. (Was it so hard to say “did well”?)
There also seems to be a strange trend in past tenses of verbs.
I keep finding odd constructions such as “ I sung” instead of I sang, or I have sung.
“I rung her”, instead of I rang her, or I have rung her.
Not to mention the excruciating “would of, could of, instead of would have, could have!

@shegrowshorns

I was about to post this but the opposite! Ha! Actually either is acceptable, you can pluralise with or without the 's' but for some reason "stones" irritates me.

Shop Local: yes, I remember when that started to be used as a promotional slogan in my area and some of my acquaintances winced whenever they saw it. I didn't think it that big a deal at the time but I am now noticing more slogans without adverbs, eg Eat healthy, and that annoys me.

I wonder if it's because visual slogans and short promotional sentences look better without 'ly' in the end.

Maybe some people don't read much and therefore don't pick up grammar by exposure to it - I don't remember learning about adverbs at school (or much grammar in fact).

I think you need to start spending time with some more intelligent people! Reading all three of your examples made me cringe, and my 6 year old wouldn’t say something so stupid 😂

If someone says “she sang amazing” then amazing is the adverb isn’t it? Adverb is a word adding description to a verb. It’s not correctly written but that phrase is not lacking an adverb.

Amazing isn't an adverb.

Somethink is unforgivable too.

It is in the phrase “she sings amazing” - in the same way people make nouns into verbs and vice versa.