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!

Amazing is an adjective. Shovelling it into an adverb’s role is like cutting a piece of bread, covering it with sugar and saying it’s a cake. No it’s not. It’s a piece of bread covered in sugar.

YANBU but not all of us have abandoned the adverb. All is not lost!

What really makes me quite cross is when a bizarre adverb/adjective mashup get used: "it was crazy busy", "it was noisy loud". STOP IT.

I seen her.

What about “to”?

“I’m going Nando/Boots/London” etc. Where is the TO??

"It stang me" after an angry wasp incident.

Riddley it should be 'she sang amazingly' as in she sang amazingly well. The song might have been amazing (adjective) but she sang it amazingly (adverb).

Just the same as he runs slowly (adverb) whereas he is slow (adjective).

It's annoying.

Yes, language may evolve (devolve?), but we don't have to like it, and it's not necessarily a good thing.

Another sign of the impending collapse of civilisation?

I definitely thing the advertising slogans are playing a massive part in this. I think we should be able to complain to the ASA for poor grammar. You can complain about adverts being distasteful etc. I think if they get enough complaints they have to pull the adverts don't they? We should try.... At least it might make the news.

I think M&S (might have been waitrose) changed their checkout signs from '8 items or less' , to '8 items or fewer' after enough people complained....

YANBU at all. The first people I noticed dropping adverbs were footballers/football presenters. "He did brilliant" or worse "he done brilliant".

Something that I see all the time on MN is 'recommend me a whatever ' where's the 'to' as in 'recommend a whatever to me'. Ugh

Slightly off topic but the response, "I'm good", to a question bugs me.

"Would you like a drink?"
"I'm good".
"OK, so, erm, would you like a drink?"

Also, I tell the children in my class to swap 'sat/stood' for 'ran' and see if it makes sense then. So if you are going to say, "I was sat/stood there", would you say, "I was ran there"?

As an English teacher I've noticed inaccurate use of prepositions to have increased over the years: to, at, on, off, for.

It not only makes the writer appear unintelligent, it obscures meaning.

Imagine if a nurse/doctor misused/read a mistaken preposition when making a medical decision. Or a lawyer/barrister preparing a case.

I can accept ordinary people using the dialect form of adverbs such as amazing for amazingly, but it irritates me to hear it from t.v. presenters. You haven't mentioned my pet hate, the lost noun - New Year's. Aaaagh!!

Of course most of this is down to the influence of the good old USA. I am continually trying to get my 11 year old to speak like a British person rather than an American but it is a losing battle and I reckon in 20 years most of us will be speaking like Americans and adverbs will definitely be gone for good.

Yes, echt! The prepositions thing drives me crazy, too. Example, being excited ‘for’ something... It’s ‘about’!

Cockneys: "I ar-k-sd you a question."
😡😡😡

Yanbu - opened the thread to say same for prepositions esp to but I see several others have already said the same.
Now the only question is whether it is pretentious & annoying to correct people??

These all just sound American to my ears?

Thank you for reinforcing my point User, they are American and fucking annoying to boot!

Sitting and standing are slowly disappearing

The one that really irritates me is incorrect past tense (instead of continuous? I’m not sure): “she needed fed”
“It needed replaced”

Wtf is that all about??!

babdoc my DD gets so irritated because all her friends say "jamp" for jumped!

The thing that really infuriates me is the use of "I seen" and "I done". It's everywhere!! Even the teaching assistants at school do it!

@clarissa469 I am nowhere near London but had someone I was having a discussion with, tell another person who joined us, that he had axed me lots of questions...😱

Cockneys: "I ar-k-sd you a question."

Erm no. My Dad is a Cockney and that is not a normal Cockney pronunciation at all.

reminded me of this

First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing, because verbing weirds language
Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing, because no verbs
Then they for the descriptive, and I silent because verbless and nounless
Then they for me, and, but no