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Discussion: I want to learn english better and I would like to have new friends!

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I want to learn english better and I would like to have new friends!
Can you help me with English, please?? I'd want to find new friends too.

Language pair: Italian; English
Roberta
June 18, 2016

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Re:I want to learn english better and I would like to have new friends!
Hello! I'd be happy to help you with your English in exchange for help with Italian!

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Rebecca
June 30, 2016

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Re:Eat healthy or eat healthily
Eat health or eat healthily?? i think we should use adverb 'healthily' to modify the verb 'eat'; but from a book i see it reads you should eat healthy!which is right?

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Young
Yang

July 3, 2016

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Re:Re:Eat healthy or eat healthily
Hi, Young. It really should be "eat healthfully". "Healthily" isn´t a word. If one wants to use the adjective "healthy" one could say "healthy eating".
But why does the book say "eat healthy", then? Is it just a blatant error?, you ask.
What´s going on here is this book is speaking pop English. There are a lot of deviations from proper grammatical form in the commercial world. "Eat healthy" isn't even colloquial English. It's commercial/pop English. It's like advertisements that say things like "Got milk?" (as opposed to the proper: "Have you got milk?" or "Do you have milk?" or to the colloquial "You got milk?") or "Think coffee." (which is as opposed to the proper: "Think about coffee."). It's the English language revised to be short, concise and commanding-- the language of advertising.

Language pair: English; Spanish
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Mary
Mary

July 6, 2016

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Re:Re:Eat healthy or eat healthily
I have always used healthy. As a matter of fact I think is the first time I see healthly written somewere. LOL

Best of luck

Juan.

Language pair: English; English
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Juan
Forero

July 6, 2016

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Re:Re:Re:Eat healthy or eat healthily
Healthily is a word - it is an adverb and to me there is no difference between the 2 statements. Both are valid.

Language pair: English; Spanish
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Johnny
Bizzel

July 22, 2016

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