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The sentence in June Casagrande's June 16th 2013 Albany Times Union article that caught my eye was "Grammar snobs are great big meanies." In her article entitled "Some claims of error are just wrong" Casagrande addresses the complaint of two readers who accused her of making a grammatical error. One reader wrote that only adverbs modify verbs and the other reader wrote "Wrong can only be used as a noun or adjective, but never an adverb." An example of a sentence would be "I did it wrong." However, Casagrande explained that both readers are wrong because according to the dictionary wrong is an adverb as well as an adjective. Wrong and wrongly are both adverbs. Goodly would be a word if all adverbs were to be formed by adding "ly" Casagrande said.
According to http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wrong wrong is a noun, an adjective and an adverb. According to http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrongly wrongly is an adverb too.
This is an interesting grammatical intricacy. I dislike grammar meanies!
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