“I might trade this problem for the promise to use adverbs at all. It seems like every day I hear (or, worse, read) that “someone did the job just perfect” or that “a group that was heavy armed” did something , or “they are assured the job was performed very safe” or that someone (I hope it was someone who talks like this) was “not taken serious” at all in some context. Drives me crazily.”
It is important to note that adverbs of manner always end in "ly", e.g carefully, beautifully, frankly, carelessly, honestly, loudly, neatly etc. They form the largest group of adverbs that we have in English. They are MOSTLY used to modify verbs as we can see in the thread above (in the forms of verb "did", "armed", "performed", and "taken").
Perfectly is an adverb; perfect is an adjective. Therefore, to properly use an adverb in the context above, we must use "perfectly" as in "someone did the job just perfectly.
It is important to note that adverbs of manner always end in "ly", e.g carefully, beautifully, frankly, carelessly, honestly, loudly, neatly etc. They form the largest group of adverbs that we have in English. They are MOSTLY used to modify verbs as we can see in the thread above (in the forms of verb "did", "armed", "performed", and "taken").
Perfectly is an adverb; perfect is an adjective. Therefore, to properly use an adverb in the context above, we must use "perfectly" as in "someone did the job just perfectly.
The same thing will apply to "HEAVILY armed", "very SAFELY", and "taken SERIOUSLY".