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[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Healthily. The word is "healthily".

"Healthily" is an adverb, which modifies the verb "eating". "Healthy" is an adjective, which just leaves the reader asking "eating healthy what?".

This has been your daily grammar fact. Cheers!

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 49 points 8 months ago

Today's the day you add flat adverbs to your grammar info, and hopefully begin on the path of gaining enough knowledge about grammar makes nitpicking on the internet seem like a bad idea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_adverb

[-] blubton@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I didn't know about this, so thank you! To raise more awareness I feel like we should rebrand "flat adverb" to "flatverb" or "fladverb". This would sure be an improvement over the current brand.

[-] ccf@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago

Merriam-Webster says healthy is also an adverb and even gives "eating healthy" as an example

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