diamondcutter
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🆚What is the difference between "Don't act stupid." and "Don't act stupidly." ? "Don't act stupid." vs "Don't act stupidly." ?
Synonym for Don't act stupid. Technically, you need an adverb to modify "act", so "act stupidly" would be correct, but we frequently use a "flat adverb" and say "Don't act stupid". It is better to say "Don't be stupid" so that stupid becomes an adjective. Nobody says "Don't act stupidly". |Don't...
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On this web page, a native speaker (?) says this:
Nobody says "Don't act stupidly".
I’d like to know if what he/she says is true.